Abstract—In this paper, we study how to optimize the transmission decisions of nodes aimed at supporting mission-critical applications, such as surveillance, security monitoring,...
— The performance of wireless data systems has been thoroughly studied in the context of a single base station. In the present paper we analyze networks with several interacting ...
Although the ant metaphor has been successfully applied to routing of data packets both in wireless and fixed networks, little is yet known about its applicability to the task of...
Currently, companies are about to optimize their internal processes by monitoring items they handle with Radio Frequency Identification (RFID). However, there is a risk that sens...
The objective of query optimizers is to select a good execution plan for a given query. In a distributed system, it is crucial for a query optimizer to have effective remote cost e...