In pervasive computing environments, applications find themselves in constantly changing operating conditions. Such applications often need to discover locally available resources ...
One of the challenges in pervasive computing is communication between a mobile user's terminal and the continuously changing local environment. Bluetooth is one potential opt...
—The design of a collision avoidance system for trains implies the design of a MAC layer for their specific requirements. It should be efficient, reliable, use broadcast and su...
Cristina Rico Garcia, Andreas Lehner, Thomas Stran...
Sensor networks have been used in many surveillance systems, providing statistical information about monitored areas. Accurate counting information (e.g., the distribution
of the ...
Shuo Guo, Tian He, Mohamed F. Mokbel, John A. Stan...
Having access to an accurate time is a vital building block in all networks; in wireless sensor networks even more so, because wireless media access or data fusion may depend on i...
Christoph Lenzen, Philipp Sommer, Roger Wattenhofe...