A smart home aims at building intelligence automation with a goal to provide its inhabitants with maximum possible comfort, minimize the resource consumption and thus overall cost...
Consider a placement of heterogeneous, wireless sensors that can vary the transmission range by increasing or decreasing power. The problem of determining an optimal assignment of ...
Kenneth A. Berman, Fred S. Annexstein, Aravind Ran...
In this paper we study the use of vehicles as sensors in a "vehicular sensor network," a new network paradigm that is critical for gathering valuable information in urba...
Uichin Lee, Eugenio Magistretti, Biao Zhou, Mario ...
Tiny embedded systems have not been an ideal outfit for high performance computing due to their constrained resources. Limitations in processing power, battery life, communication ...
When the range of single-hop wireless communication is limited by distance or harsh radio propagation conditions, relays can be used to extend the communication range through mult...
Michael R. Souryal, Johannes Geissbuehler, Leonard...