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GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
LA-MAC: A Load Adaptive MAC Protocol for MANETs
—The performance of prevalent MAC protocols in MANETs relies on the level of contention in networks. While contention-based MAC protocols such as CSMA suffer from inefficiency u...
Weihong Hu, Xiaolong Li, Homayoun Yousefi'zadeh
SIES
2009
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
A wireless body sensor network for the prevention and management of asthma
—We present an application of an open source platform for wireless body sensor network called DexterNet to the problem of children’s asthma. The architecture of the system cons...
Edmund Y. W. Seto, Annarita Giani, Victor Shia, Cu...
RTSS
2009
IEEE
16 years 2 months ago
Multiprocessor Extensions to Real-Time Calculus
Abstract—Many embedded platforms consist of a heterogeneous collection of processing elements, memory modules, and communication subsystems. These components often implement diff...
Hennadiy Leontyev, Samarjit Chakraborty, James H. ...
WAIM
2009
Springer
16 years 2 months ago
Dynamic Data Migration Policies for Query-Intensive Distributed Data Environments
Abstract. Modern large distributed applications, such as telecommunication and banking services, need to respond instantly to a huge number of queries within a short period of time...
Tengjiao Wang, Bishan Yang, Allen Huang, Qi Zhang,...
CIKM
2009
Springer
16 years 2 months ago
Voting in social networks
A voting system is a set of rules that a community adopts to take collective decisions. In this paper we study voting systems for a particular kind of community: electronically me...
Paolo Boldi, Francesco Bonchi, Carlos Castillo, Se...