Technical Reports (Computing Science)
Technical Reports Collection
Items in this Collection
- 5Nascimento, Mario
- 2Malhotra, Baljeet
- 2Nikolaidis, Ioanis
- 1Alencar, Romulo
- 1Brayner, Angelo
- 1Chitkara, Vishal
- 6Database Systems
- 2Wireless sensor networks
- 1Access structures
- 1Aggregation
- 1Bit-string signatures
- 1CBIR
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2009
Malhotra, Baljeet, Nikolaidis, Ioanis, Nascimento, Mario
Technical report TR09-14. We consider the problem of aggregation convergecast scheduling in wireless sensor networks. Aggregation convergecast differs from regular convergecast in that it accommodates transmission dependencies that allow in-network aggregation to be performed. We formulate the...
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2009
Nikolaidis, Ioanis, Nascimento, Mario A., Malhotra, Baljeet
Technical report TR09-01. Finding the top-k values is an important type of aggregation query in wireless sensor networks. Previous proposals relied on a given underlying logical tree topology for data aggregation/forwarding, but did not pay due attention to the role of such topology. In this...
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On the Trade-Off Between User-Location Privacy and Queried-Location Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks
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Harms, Janelle, Vogt, Ryan, Nascimento, Mario
Technical report TR09-07. By eavesdropping on a user's query in a sensor network, an adversary can deduce both the user's location and his/her area of interest. In many domains it is desirable to guarantee privacy of both places. Relying on the principle of k-anonymity, we propose an effective...
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2009
Alencar, Romulo, Nascimento, Mario, Brayner, Angelo
Technical report TR09-05. It is a well known fact that minimizing energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is crucial for its usability; and minimizing the flow of data is one way to achieve that. Most WSN models assume the existence of a base station where query results could in...
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Content-Based Image Retrieval Using Binary Signatures
2000
Nascimento, Mario, Chitkara, Vishal, Mastaller, Curt
Technical report TR00-18. Significant research has focused on determining efficient methodologies for retrieving images in large image databases. In this paper, we propose two variations of a new image abstraction technique based on signature bit-strings and an appropriate similarity metric. The...
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Benchmarking Access Structures for High-Dimensional Multimedia Data
1999
Nascimento, Mario, Colossi, Nathan
Technical report TR99-05. In multimedia databases it is usual to map objects into feature vectors in high-dimensional spaces. In order to speed query processing access structures, or indices, are required. Unfortunately, in the case of similarity queries, which are in fact nearest neighbor ...