With the ever-increasing pervasiveness of the Internet and its stringent performance requirements, network system designers have begun utilizing specialized chips to increase the ...
Clock synchronization is critical for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to the need of inter-node coordination and collaborative information processing. Although many message pa...
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is considered to be the next step in the revolution of supplychain management, retail, and beyond. To derive real benefit from RFI...
Estimation via sampling out of highly selective join queries is well known to be problematic, most notably in online aggregation. Without goal-directed sampling strategies, samples...
With the advent of Grid and application technologies, scientists and engineers are building more and more complex applications to manage and process large data sets, and execute s...