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SENSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
ATPC: adaptive transmission power control for wireless sensor networks
Extensive empirical studies presented in this paper confirm that the quality of radio communication between low power sensor devices varies significantly with time and environme...
Shan Lin, Jingbin Zhang, Gang Zhou, Lin Gu, John A...
SENSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Data compression algorithms for energy-constrained devices in delay tolerant networks
Sensor networks are fundamentally constrained by the difficulty and energy expense of delivering information from sensors to sink. Our work has focused on garnering additional si...
Christopher M. Sadler, Margaret Martonosi
SENSYS
2006
ACM
16 years 14 days ago
Interest dissemination with directional antennas for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks
Introducing mobile data sinks into wireless sensor networks (WSNs) improves the energy efficiency and the network lifetime, and is demanded for many application scenarios, such a...
Yihong Wu, Lin Zhang, Yiqun Wu, Zhisheng Niu
SIGCSE
2006
ACM
362views Education» more  SIGCSE 2006»
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Chirp on crickets: teaching compilers using an embedded robot controller
Traditionally, the topics of compiler construction and language processing have been taught as an elective course in Computer Science curricula. As such, students may graduate wit...
Li Xu, Fred G. Martin
SIGECOM
2006
ACM
106views ECommerce» more  SIGECOM 2006»
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Approximation algorithms and online mechanisms for item pricing
We present approximation and online algorithms for a number of problems of pricing items for sale so as to maximize seller’s revenue in an unlimited supply setting. Our first r...
Maria-Florina Balcan, Avrim Blum