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This book provides a comprehensive survey on related work for radio link quality estimation, which covers the characteristics of low-power links, the fundamental concepts of link quality estimation in wireless sensor networks, a taxonomy of existing link quality estimators and their performance analysis. It then shows how link quality estimation can be used for designing protocols and mechanism…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Third International ICST Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, AMBI-SYS 2013, held in Athens, Greece, in March 2013. The 12 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from various submissions. The papers focus on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric intelli…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Information Literacy, ECIL 2013, held in Istanbul Turkey, in October 2013. The 73 revised full papers presented together with two keynotes, 9 invited papers and four doctoral papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 236 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on overview and research; policies…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology, IAIT 2013, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in December 2013. The 23 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They deal with all areas related to applied information technology.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Metadata and Semantics Research Conference, MTSR 2013, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, in November 2013. The 29 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in several sessions and tracks. The sessions cover the following topics: platforms for research datasets, system architec…
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First Asia Pacific Conference on Business Process Management held in Beijing, China, in August 2013. In all, 19 contributions from seven countries were submitted. Following an extensive review process by an international Program Committee, seven full papers and one short paper were accepted for publication in this book and presentation at the conf…
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International ICST Conference on Personal Satellite Services, PSATS 2013, held in Toulouse, France, in June 2013. The 18 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They are grouped in the following topical sections: satellite for emergency and aero communicatio…
This SpringerBrief presents a survey of data center network designs and topologies and compares several properties in order to highlight their advantages and disadvantages. The brief also explores several routing protocols designed for these topologies and compares the basic algorithms to establish connections, the techniques used to gain better performance, and the mechanisms for fault-toleran…
This SpringerBrief summarizes the development of Distributed Hash Table in both academic and industrial fields. It covers the main theory, platforms and applications of this key part in distributed systems and applications, especially in large-scale distributed environments. The authors teach the principles of several popular DHT platforms that can solve practical problems such as load balance,…