Counting or estimating the number of tags is crucial for large-scale RFID systems. The use of multiple readers was recently proposed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness in ...
—As multiprocessor systems are increasingly used in real-time environments, scheduling and synchronization analysis of these platforms receive growing attention. However, most kn...
—Epidemic-based communications, or “gossiping”, provides a robust and scalable method for maintaining a knowledge base in a sensor network faced with an unpredictable network...
Graham Williamson, Davide Cellai, Simon A. Dobson,...
—This paper investigates fundamental performance limits of medium access control (MAC) protocols for particular underwater multi-hop sensor networks under a fair-access criterion...
Yang Xiao, Miao Peng, John H. Gibson, Geoffrey G. ...
This paper presents the concept and preliminary performance evaluation of a stochastic network discovery approach named opportunistic scanning. Therein, a station only pauses its ...