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AINA
2009
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
How Long is the Lifetime of a Wireless Sensor Network?
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are known to be highly energy-constrained and each network’s lifetime has a strong dependence on the nodes’ battery capacity. As such, the netw...
Nok Hang Mak, Winston Khoon Guan Seah
ICDCSW
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Behavior and Performance of Message-Oriented Middleware Systems
The middleware technology used as the foundation of Internet-enabled enterprise systems is becoming increasingly complex. In addition, the various technologies offer a number of s...
Phong Tran, Paul Greenfield, Ian Gorton
ACMACE
2009
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Familiars: representing Facebook users' social behaviour through a reflective playful experience
In this paper, we describe the design and development of a social game called Familiars. Inspired by the daemons in Pullman’s “Dark Material” trilogy, Familiars are animal c...
Ben Kirman, Eva Ferrari, Shaun Lawson, Jonathan Fr...
NOSSDAV
2001
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
The utility of feedback in layered multicast congestion control
Layered multicast is a common approach for dissemination of audio and video in heterogeneous network environments. Layered multicast schemes can be classified into two categories...
Sergey Gorinsky, Harrick M. Vin
ECCV
2010
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
A 2D Human Body Model Dressed in Eigen Clothing
Detection, tracking, segmentation and pose estimation of people in monocular images are widely studied. Two-dimensional models of the human body are extensively used, however, they...