Tracking and tracing individual items is a new and emerging trend in many industries. Driven by maturing technologies such as Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) and upcoming s...
Rakesh Agrawal, Alvin Cheung, Karin Kailing, Stefa...
— Instruments and sensors and their accompanying actuators are essential to the conduct of scientific research. In many cases they provide observations in electronic format and ...
We consider distributed applications that continuously stream data across the network, where data needs to be aggregated and processed to produce a 'useful' stream of up...
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Gre...
The backup of large data sets is preferably performed automatically outside of regular working hours. In highly structured computer networks, however, faults and exceptions may rel...
Wireless links can exhibit high error rates due to attenuation, fading, or interfering active radiation sources. To make matters worse, error rates can be highly variable due to c...