This work presents a data-centric strategy to meet deadlines in soft real-time applications in wireless sensor networks. This strategy considers three main aspects: (i) The design of real-time application to obtain the minimum deadlines; (ii) An analytic model to estimate the ideal sample size used by data-reduction algorithms; and (iii) Two data-centric stream-based sampling algorithms to perf...

body centric wireless communication (bcwc) has been the topic of much research in recent years. in this manuscript, a novel low-cost microstrip patch antenna is designed for on-/off-body communications with a dual-band operation. the proposed structure exhibits a monopole-like radiation pattern at 2.45ghz and a broadside radiation at 4.8ghz, simultaneously. lateral dimensions of 42 mm × 46 mm a...

Image segmentation is critical for many computer vision and information retrieval systems. Although lot of advancements has been made in this area, but there is no standard technique for selecting a segmentation algorithm to use in a particular application. Two different segmentation algorithms will produce completely different segmentation results when applied to same image, which in turn affe...

Information-centric networking (ICN) and its fruition, the named data (NDN) is a paradigm shift from host-centric address-based communication architecture to content-centric name-based one. ICN intends resolve various major issues faced by today’s internet such as privacy, security, consistent routing, mobility, name few. With massive increase of mobile traffic in era, mobility one concerns net...

Process discovery is a technique that allows for automatically discovering a process model from recorded executions of a process as it happens in reality. This technique has successfully been applied for classical processes where one process execution is constituted by a single case with a unique case identifier. Data-centric and artifact-centric systems such as ERP systems violate this assumpt...

Information and Communication technology (ICT) initiatives for rural development in India are not new. Many of these initiatives have shown mixed response. Most of these projects are incubated with government support. A development project to be sustainable, it should move from “supply-driven” concept to “demand driven” (citizen centric). Rural citizens deprived of infrastructural support and o...

Coalition network-centric operations are a crucial component of future military operations but their success and efficiency is by no means guaranteed and simulation is one powerful technique for assuring this success. The challenges of coalition operations that simulation can address spring from a number of sources, including differences in equipment, differences in training, and differences in...

1 Application of a New Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Paradigm on the Design of a Crisis Management Distributed System Konstantinos Domdouzis, Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research (CENTRIC), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK Simon Andrews, Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence & Organised Crime Research (CENTR...

5G networks rely on infrastructure-centric cellular solutions to address data traffic and service demands. Continuously scaling infrastructure-centric cellular networks is not exempt of challenges, and beyond 5G networks should consider the active coexistence and coordination of infrastructure-centric and device-centric wireless networks. Device-centric wireless networks will build from device-...

We present an information gathering system for medical image inspection that consists of software tools for capturing computer-centric and human-centric information. Computer-centric information includes (1) static annotations, such as (a) image drawings enclosing any selected area, a set of areas with similar colors, a set of salient points, and (b) textual descriptions associated with either ...