Users' tasks are typically a sequence of steps. Today, the goal of Pervasive Computing applications ? to support users in their tasks by using context information ? is only p...
Stephan Urbanski, Christian Becker, Kurt Rothermel
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are employed in many applications in order to collect data. One key challenge is to minimize energy consumption to prolong network lifetime. A sche...
Yingshu Li, Chunyu Ai, Wiwek P. Deshmukh, Yiwei Wu
—Conventional 802.11 medium access control (MAC) characteristics. In particular, all of these designs adopted a protocols have been designed separately from the characteristics s...
Abstract. The widespread availability of both fixed and wireless network connectivity and the growing market of portable devices are enabling anytime and anywhere impromptu collabo...
Dario Bottazzi, Antonio Corradi, Rebecca Montanari
Developing network protocols for mobile wireless systems is a complex task, and most of the existing simulator frameworks are not well suited for experimental development. The YAE...