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Parkinson's disease (PD) is a complex, chronic disease that many patients live with for many years. In this work we propose a mHealth approach based on a set of unobtrusive, simple-in-use, off-the-self, co-operative, mobile devices that will be used for motor and non-motor symptoms monitoring and evaluation, as well as for the detection of fluctuations along with their duration through a waking day...
Protocols for beamforming antennas usually direct the beam toward the respective communication partner. This requires significant coordination between nodes and results in frequent changes of the beam direction. In this paper, we present much simpler algorithms that instead aim at improving connectivity and robustness of routing. A node computes the optimal beam direction using aggregate information...
Medium access using the distributed coordination function of IEEE 802.11 is not efficient in wireless multihop networks if the devices are equipped with beamforming antennas. This paper proposes a distributed MAC protocol that goes completely away from the spatial reservation scheme of 802.11. It facilitates the use of beamforming antennas by following an announcement-objection scheme: a potential...
Multihop wireless networks will play an important role in future communication networks. Beamforming antennas have shown great potential to improve the connectivity in these networks; however only heuristic approaches exist to assess the benefits of this technology. Using the popular "keyhole" antenna model, we formulate a Mixed Integer Program (MIP) capable of acquiring optimal antenna...
Conventional medium access control protocols are designed to avoid simultaneous transmissions, based on a simple collision model in the underlying physical layer. Recently, strong physical layer capabilities, enabled by multiuser detection techniques, have been studied in connection with simple medium access control protocols, for example, slotted ALOHA. We think that neither of these extreme approaches...
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