Existing slotted channel access schemes in wireless networks assume that slot boundaries at all nodes are synchronized. In practice, relative clock drifts among nodes cause slot mi...
Wireless 802.11 hotspots have grown in an uncoordinated fashion with highly variable deployment densities. Such uncoordinated deployments, coupled with the difficulty of implemen...
Resource reservation has been recently supported by many real-time operating systems to provide applications with guaranteed and timely access to system resources. Typically, rese...
Radio duty cycling has received significant attention in sensor networking literature, particularly in the form of protocols for medium access control and topology management. Whi...
The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...