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SMOCK: A Scalable Method of Cryptographic Key Management for Mission-Critical Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
October 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mission-critical networks show great potential in emergency response and/or recovery, health care, critical infrastructure monitoring, etc. Such mission-critical applications demand security...
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Distributed Grooming in Multi-Domain IP/MPLS-DWDM Networks
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies distributed multi-domain, multilayer provisioning (grooming) in IP/MPLS-DWDM networks. Although many multi-domain studies have emerged over the years, these have primarily...
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Wi-Fi Community Area Networks Enable a Connected Community
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors propose a Community Area Network (CAN), which is an all-wireless network connecting a community or a metropolitan area. This is a multi-hop network consisting of many Wi-Fi supernodes,...
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Design, Implementation, and Performance of MPI on Portals 3.0
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper describes an implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) on the Portals 3.0 data movement layer. Portals 3.0 provide low-level building blocks that are flexible enough to...
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Evolution of Carrier Ethernet - Technology Choices and Drivers
April 6, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The shift from native Ethernet in LANs to switched Ethernet in WANs has propelled efforts of making Ethernet as an ideal candidate technology for transport. Carrier Ethernet has the advantage of...
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Opportunities for Leveraging OS Virtualization in High-End Supercomputing
November 22, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper examines potential motivations for incorporating virtualization support in the system software stacks of high end capability supercomputers. This paper advocates that this will increase...
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Autonomous Security for Autonomous Systems
March 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Internet's inter-domain routing protocol, BGP, supports a complex network of Autonomous Systems which is vulnerable to a number of potentially crippling attacks. Several promising...
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Anonymous Data Collection in Sensor Networks
May 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Sensor networks involving human participants will require privacy protection before wide deployment is feasible. This paper proposes and evaluates a set of protocols that enable anonymous data...
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Task Reallocation for Maximal Reliability in Distributed Computing Systems With Uncertain Topologies and Non-Markovian Delays
March 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The ability to model and optimize reliability is central in designing survivable Distributed Computing Systems (DCSs) where servers are prone to fail permanently. In this paper the service...
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Distributed Load Balancing Over Directed Network Topologies
March 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors consider the problem of distributed load balancing over a directed graph that is not fully connected. They study the impact of network topology on the stability and...
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Increasing Communications Security Through Protocol Parameter Diversity
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Pulsing attacks use carefully synchronized high-rate low-duration bursts of traffic that are injected into a network to induce denial-of-service. These attacks are effective because the bursts...
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Putting Trojans on the Horns of a Dilemma: Redundancy for Information Theft Detection
January 19, 2010, 12:00am PST
Conventional approaches to either information flow security or intrusion detection are not suited to detecting Trojans that steal information such as credit card numbers using advanced...
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The Forgiving Graph: A Distributed Data Structure for Low Stretch Under Adversarial Attack
February 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of self-healing in peer-to-peer networks that are under repeated attack by an omniscient adversary. They assume that, over a sequence of rounds, an adversary...
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An Immune System Inspired Approach to Automated Program Verification
May 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An immune system inspired Artificial Immune System (AIS) algorithm is presented, and is used for the purposes of automated program verification. Relevant immunological concepts are discussed and...
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Term Rewriting With Built-In Numbers and Collection Data Structures
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Term rewrite systems have been extensively used in order to model computer programs for the purpose of formal verification. This is in particular true if the termination behavior of computer...
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Dependency Pairs for Rewriting With Built-in Numbers and Semantic Data Structures
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper defines an expressive class of constrained equational rewrite systems that supports the use of semantic data structures (e.g., sets or multisets) and contains built-in numbers, thus...
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Termination of Context-Sensitive Rewriting With Built-In Numbers and Collection Data Structures
February 5, 2009, 12:00am PST
Context-sensitive rewriting is a restriction of rewriting that can be used to elegantly model declarative specification and programming languages such as Maude. Furthermore, it can be used to...
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Operational Termination of Conditional Rewriting With Built-in Numbers and Semantic Data Structures
December 10, 2007, 12:00am PST
Rewrite systems on free data structures have limited expressive power since semantic data structures like sets or multisets cannot be modeled elegantly. In this work the authors define a class of...
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Termination Analysis of C Programs Using Compiler Intermediate Languages
January 21, 2011, 12:00am PST
Modeling the semantics of programming languages like C for the automated termination analysis of programs is a challenge if complete coverage of all language features should be achieved. On the...
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A Term Rewriting Approach to the Automated Termination Analysis of Imperative Programs
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
An approach based on term rewriting techniques for the automated termination analysis of imperative programs operating on integers is presented. An imperative program is transformed into rewrite...
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Proving Termination of Integer Term Rewriting
May 13, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Recently, techniques and tools from term rewriting have been successfully applied to prove termination automatically for different programming languages. The advantage of rewrite techniques is...
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Data Rates Conditions for Network Control System Stabilization
July 29, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors present sufficient conditions on the rate of a packet network to guarantee asymptotic stability of unstable discrete LTI system with linear state feedback control. Two...
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Do IPO Underwriting Relationships Affect The Subsequent Lending Business?
July 17, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates the relationship between IPO underwriting and subsequent lending business. The authors find that if a lender underwrites the IPO of a firm, it is more likely for this...
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Underpricing And Aftermarket Liquidity: An Empirical Exploration Of Hong Kong IPOs
August 27, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper evaluates the implications of three of the extant IPO models relating underpricing and aftermarket liquidity. Using hand collected data from a sample of bookbuilt Hong Kong IPOs, this...
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Automatically Finding Patches Using Genetic Programming
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Automatic repair of programs has been a longstanding goal in software engineering, yet debugging remains a largely manual process. The authors introduce a fully automated method for locating and...
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An Integrated Model of Traffic, Geography and Economy in the Internet
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Modeling Internet growth is important both for understanding the current network and to predict and improve its future. To date, Internet models have typically attempted to explain a subset of the...
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Throughput Optimization and Traffic Engineering in WDM Networks Considering Multiple Metrics
September 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a multi-objective Integer Linear Program (ILP) for the joint throughput optimization and traffic engineering problem in Wavelength-Division Multiplexing (WDM)...
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Maximizing Throughput in Wireless Multi-Access Channel Networks
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Recent advances in the physical layer have enabled the simultaneous reception of multiple packets by a node in wireless networks. In this paper, the authors present a generalized model for the...
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Minimum Length Scheduling in Single-Hop Multiple Access Wireless Networks
September 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the minimum length scheduling problem in wireless networks, where each transmitter has a finite amount of data to deliver to a common receiver node (e.g., base...
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Managed Control of Composite Cloud Systems
April 20, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud providers have just begun to provide primitive functionality enabling users to configure and easily provision resources, primarily in the infrastructure as a service domain. In order to...
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Packet-Oriented Routing in Delay-Tolerant Vehicular Sensor Networks
May 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Currently, Vehicular Sensor Network (VSN) has been paid much attention for monitoring the physical world of urban areas. The authors have studied VSNs by utilizing about 4000 taxis and 1000 buses...
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Learning to Thrive in a Leasing Market: An Auctioning Framework for Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (D-DSL)
December 13, 2010, 12:00am PST
Recently proposed Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (DSL) for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) presumes that there is a reward for primary users for accepting secondary activity. The reward primary users...
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Immersive Network Monitoring
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
This paper presents the immersive network monitoring system that is used for real-time and retrospective analysis of network traffic. The 3-D representations are designed from the perspective of...
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Radiation Therapy Calculations Using an On-Demand Virtual Cluster Via Cloud Computing
September 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Computer hardware costs are the limiting factor in producing highly accurate radiation dose calculations on convenient time scales. Because of this, large scale, full Monte Carlo simulations and...
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Traffic Data Processing in Vehicular Sensor Networks
August 22, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The existing vehicular sensors of taxi companies in most of cities can be used for traffic monitoring, however sensors are always set with a long sampling interval because of communication cost...
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A Novel Primary-Secondary User Power Control Game for Cognitive Radios
December 10, 2008, 12:00am PST
In cognitive radio networks, secondary users need to access the licensed spectrum while neither disturbing the transmissions of the primary users nor introducing much interference to other...
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Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (DSL) in Dynamic Channels
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (DSL) was recently proposed as a new way to achieve Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS). Unlike previously considered Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) proposals, DSL allows for...
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Implementation of a Cognitive Radio Front-End Using Optically Reconfigurable Antennas
May 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a reconfigurable radio front-end antenna scheme suitable for cognitive radio communications. The authors' scheme comprises of an UWB antenna structure (antenna-1) and a...
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Efficient Spectrum Sharing With Autonomous Primary Users: Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (D-DSL)
August 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce a new architecture for dynamic spectrum sharing called the Distributed Dynamic Spectrum Leasing (D-DSL) and a game theoretic framework for its implementation...
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A Rotatable Reconfigurable Antenna for Cognitive Radio Applications
October 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents an antenna scheme suitable for cognitive radio applications. A UWB sensing antenna and a frequency reconfigurable communicating antenna are incorporated together into the same...
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Software Mutational Robustness: Bridging the Gap Between Mutation Testing and Evolutionary Biology
April 18, 2012, 12:00am PDT
In the mutation testing paradigm, test suite quality is measured by its ability to detect (or kill) variant programs generated through application of random changes to an original program. The...
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Using Execution Paths to Evolve Software Patches
March 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present an evolutionary approach using Genetic Programming (GP) to automatically create software repairs. By concentrating the modifications on regions related to where the bug occurs,...
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Using Dynamic Analysis to Discover Polynomial and Array Invariants
May 5, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic invariant analysis identifies likely properties over variables from observed program traces. These properties can aid programmers in refactoring, documenting, and debugging tasks by making...
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Channel Learning and Communication-Aware Motion Planning in Mobile Networks
March 23, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a communication-aware motion planning framework to ensure robust cooperative operation of a mobile network in realistic communication environments. They use a...
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Dynamic Coverage of Time-Varying Environments Using a Mobile Robot - A Communication-Aware Perspective
September 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the problem of dynamic coverage of a number of points of interest, in a time-varying environment, using a mobile robot. They consider the scenario where the...
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A Communication-Aware Framework for Robotic Field Estimation
September 7, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider the problem where a fixed fusion center utilizes a number of mobile sensors in order to estimate the spatial variations of a field. The sensors measure the...
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Co-Optimization of Communication and Motion Planning of a Robotic Operation in Fading Environments
November 25, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider the scenario where a robot needs to maximize the amount of information it sends to a fixed station as it moves along a predefined trajectory. They consider the...
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Robotic Router Formation in Realistic Communication Environments - A Bit Error Rate Approach
December 22, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider the problem of robotic router formation, where two nodes need to maintain their connectivity over a large area, by using a number of mobile routers. They are...
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Cooperative Wireless-Based Obstacle/Object Mapping and See-Through Capabilities in Robotic Networks
December 24, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors develop a theoretical and experimental framework for the mapping of obstacles (including occluded ones), in a robotic cooperative network, based on a small number of...
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Automatic Program Repair With Evolutionary Computation
August 19, 2010, 12:00am PDT
There are many methods for detecting and mitigating software errors but few generic methods for automatically repairing errors once they are discovered. This paper highlights recent work combining...
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Provisioning for Probabilistic Failures in Multi-Domain DWDM Networks
June 12, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses multi-domain light-path provisioning within the context of correlated multi-failure events. The paper jointly incorporates both risk minimization and traffic engineering...
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An Application of Markov Jump Process Model for Activity-Based Indoor Mobility Prediction in Wireless Networks
October 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
One of the most important objectives of a wireless network is to facilitate a prediction of users' mobility regardless of their point of attachment to the network. In indoor environments the...
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Advance Reservation for Virtual Overlay Network Services
April 17, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network advance reservation is an area of growing interest and focus today. However, most proposed solutions in this field have only focused on the scheduling of point-to-point client connections....
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Multi-Domain DWDM Network Provisioning for Correlated Failures
June 13, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Network survivability is a key area and many schemes have been studied for optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) networks. These include pre-provisioned protection strategies for...
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Diverse Routing in Multi-Domain Optical Networks With Correlated and Probabilistic Multi-Failures
March 2, 2012, 12:00am PST
Multi-failure network survivability is a key concern for operators owing to the recent spate of natural and man-made disasters. Hence, this paper presents a new diverse lightpath protection scheme...
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Diverse Lightpath Protection Against Correlated and Probabilistic Failures in Multi-Domain Optical Networks
March 2, 2012, 12:00am PST
This paper proposes a distributed lightpath protection scheme for diverse routing in multi-domain optical networks with correlated and probabilistic failures. This novel solution jointly considers...
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Semantics-Based Resource Discovery in Large-Scale Grids
August 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the present ubiquitous network connections and the growing computational and storage capabilities of modern everyday-use computers, more resources, such as PCs, handheld devices (e.g., PDAs...
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Semantics-Based Information Valuation
June 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Information understanding and information valuation have mostly been studied separately. In this paper, the authors propose using information understanding to reach a definition for information...
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Usage Management in Cloud Computing
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
User concerns regarding data handling within the cloud will gain increasing importance as cloud computing becomes more pervasive. Existing Service Level Agreement (SLA) frameworks are not designed...
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The Forgiving Tree: A Self-Healing Distributed Data Structure
February 22, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of self-healing in peer-to-peer networks that are under repeated attack by an omniscient adversary. They assume that the following process continues for up to n...
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Picking Up the Pieces: Self-Healing in Reconfigurable Networks
January 23, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of self-healing in networks that are reconfigurable in the sense that they can change their topology during an attack. Their goal is to maintain connectivity in...
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Reducing Communication Costs in Robust Peer-to-Peer Networks
February 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
A Distributed Hash Table (DHT) is a structured peer-to-peer (p2p) network which provides for scalable and distributed storage and look-up of data items. Because peer-to-peer networks have little...
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Optimal Channel and Power Allocation for Secondary Users in Cooperative Cognitive Radio Networks
January 25, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cognitive radios are a natural evolution of Software Defined Radios (SDRs) that are supposed to be equipped with the ability to learn their RF environment and reconfigurability. A cognitive radio...
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Distributed Node Selection for Sequential Estimation Over Noisy Communication Channels
April 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a framework for distributed sequential parameter estimation in wireless sensor networks. In the proposed scheme, the estimator is updated sequentially at the current node with...
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A Cooperative Game Theoretic Solution for Lifetime Maximization of WSNs in Sequential Estimation
February 15, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the problem of sequential estimation and lifetime maximization of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is formulated in a cooperative game theoretic framework. This framework allows...
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Mobility Assisted Distributed Tracking in Hybrid Sensor Networks
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors propose a new Mobility Assisted Tracking (MAT) algorithm for tracking a single target in a hybrid sensor network consisting of both static and mobile nodes. The network...
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Trade-Off Between Mobile Node Density and the Detection Performance in Mobility-Assisted Sensor Networks
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, stationary target detection in a hybrid sensor network consisting of both static and mobile nodes is considered with random node mobility models. Static nodes and mobile nodes...
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Sequential Estimation Over Noisy Channels With Distributed Node Selection
August 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In an autonomous sensor network without a central fusion center, it is desired that any node has the ability to make the final decision once it has enough information about the Phenomenon of...
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Power Efficient Distributed Estimation in a Bandlimited Wireless Sensor Network
May 10, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The problem of distributed estimation of a nonrandom parameter in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with, in general, correlated observations over a band-limited channel is addressed. Each...
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Power Efficient Analog Forwarding for Correlated Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider the problem of optimal power allocation for fusion of a deterministic signal in an inhomogeneous Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with correlated observations....
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Communication-Aware Motion Planning in Fading Environments
February 8, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors create a framework to model and characterize the impact of time-varying fading communication links on the performance of a mobile sensor network. They propose...
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Binary Consensus Over Fading Channels: A Best Affine Estimation Approach
August 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a cooperative network that is trying to reach binary consensus over fading channels. They first characterize the impact of fading on network consensus by upper...
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To Drop or Not to Drop: Receiver Design Principles for Estimation Over Wireless Links
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider estimation of a multiple-input multiple-output dynamical system over a wireless fading communication channel using a Kalman filter. They are interested in...
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Binary Consensus With Soft Information Processing in Cooperative Networks
September 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider reaching binary consensus over a network with AWGN channels. They consider the case where knowledge of the corresponding link qualities is available at every...
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Compressed Mapping of Communication Signal Strength
September 16, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a mobile cooperative network that is tasked with building a map of the received signal strength to a fixed station. By using the recent results in the area of...
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Communication-Aware Target Tracking Using Navigation Functions - Centralized Case
February 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors consider a team of robots that are tasked with tracking a moving target cooperatively, while maintaining their connectivity to a base station and avoiding collision....
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Compressive Cooperative Sensing and Mapping in Mobile Networks
May 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a mobile cooperative network that is tasked with building a map of the spatial variations of a parameter of interest, such as an obstacle map or an aerial map....
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Characterization and Modeling of Wireless Channels for Networked Robotic and Control Systems - A Comprehensive Overview
August 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The goal of this paper is to serve as a reference for researchers in robotics and control that are interested in realistic modeling, theoretical analysis and simulation of wireless links. To...
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Fusion and Diversity Trade-Offs in Cooperative Estimation Over Fading Channels
August 12, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a network of distributed sensors that are trying to measure a parameter of interest cooperatively, by exchanging their acquired information repeatedly over...
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Compressive Cooperative Obstacle Mapping in Mobile Networks
August 16, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider a mobile cooperative network that is tasked with building an obstacle map in an environment. They propose a framework that allows the robots to build the...
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