Abstract--The proportional differentiation model is a newly introduced approach for differentiated services networks. This paper proposes and evaluates a scheduling mechanism for t...
The wide spread of location-based services results in a strong market for location-detection devices (e.g., GPS-like devices, RFIDs, handheld devices, and cellular phones). Example...
Location based services in mobile environments have been recognized as a challenging problem that calls for new service models and dynamic strategies. The problem becomes even har...
—Backoff misbehavior, in which a wireless node deliberately manipulates its backoff time, can induce significant network problems, such as severe unfairness and denial-of-servic...
This paper describes an interactive vision system for a robot that finds an object specified by a user and brings it to the user. The system first registers object models automati...