—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...
We present a system that detects human falls in the home environment, distinguishing them from competing noise, by using only the audio signal from a single far-field microphone....
It is important to have continuous connectivity in a wireless sensor network after it is deployed in a hostile environment. However, such networks are constrained by the low usert...
—This paper presents QuoCast, a resource-aware protocol for reliable stream diffusion in unreliable environments, where processes may crash and communication links may lose messa...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology provides a scalable solution in multimedia streaming. Many streaming applications, such as IPTV and video conferencing, have rigorous constraints on ...