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whitepaper The contributions include: implementation of the PIC18f4680 platform in TinyOS, creating a message protocol over CAN, and developing a sensor board. The proposed application uses wireless sensors and the Controller Area Network (CAN) to provide...
[08 Jan 2008]
whitepaper This paper introduces and compares two approaches to support energy-efficient operation of TCP in sensor networks: Distributed TCP Caching (DTC) and TCP Support for Sensor networks (TSS). However, the high bit error rates in multi-hop sensor...
[26 Dec 2007]
whitepaper We introduce an approach to support energy-efficient TCP operation in sensor networks. TCP would be useful for tasks, where reliable unicast is appropriate, but the high bit error rates in wireless sensor networks lead to energy inefficiencies...
[26 Dec 2007]
whitepaper A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is comprised of motes which are resource constraint devices. Motes are battery operated and must conserve as much power as possible. Power usage for each mote is made up of processing data, sensing the surroundings...
[03 Sep 2007]
whitepaper This paper considers the problem of minimizing the energy needed for data fusion in a sensor network by varying the transmission times assigned to different sensor nodes. The optimal scheduling protocol is derived, based on which is develop a low...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This paper investigates the problem of the lifetime maximization in wireless sensor networks under the constraint of end-to-end transmission success probability, by adopting a cross-layer strategy that considers physical layer (i.e.power control...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Since sensor nodes are often powered by limited energy sources, such as battery which may be difficult to replace, energy saving is an important criterion in any activity. A large class of sensor networks is used for data collection and aggregation...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Most routing algorithms for sensor networks focus on finding energy efficient paths to prolong the lifetime of sensor networks. Using this metric, the paper design the Maximum Energy Welfare Routing (MaxEW) algorithm, this achieves simultaneous...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Most routing algorithms for sensor networks focus on finding energy efficient paths to prolong the lifetime of sensor networks. Therefore, ideally, routing algorithms should consider not only energy efficiency, but also the amount of energy...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This protocol can be used for delay-tolerant applications such as underwater ecological sensor networks between energy-limited nodes. It is shown that under a realistic underwater sensor network scenario, the proposed MAC protocol wastes only 3...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper In the sensor relocation application, after a sensor node failure creates a coverage hole, a mobile sensor node is relocated to cover the hole in a timely and energy-efficient way. This paper presents a mobile sensor prototype in which the Mica2...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper With a few adjustments, it then shows that the algorithm also achieves time-optimum scheduling in heterogeneous scenarios, where each sensor reports a heterogeneous amount of data in each round. This paper presents a time-optimum and energy...
[31 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Because of the energy constraints of sensor devices, such systems necessitate an energy-aware design to ensure the longevity of surveillance missions. This paper describes one of the major efforts in the sensor network community to build an...
[25 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This paper presents Adaptive Sensing, an energy-efficient topology configuration method for environment monitoring using densely deployed wireless sensor networks. Sensor data is collected at powerful macronodes periodically and a low-order model...
[25 Aug 2007]
whitepaper This paper proposes a surveillance service for sensor networks based on a distributed energy-efficient sensing coverage protocol. For many sensor network applications such as military surveillance, it is necessary to provide full sensing coverage...
[25 Aug 2007]
whitepaper One of the biggest disadvantages of large scale wireless sensor networks lies on the complexity of logistics involving selective replacement of sensors that have ran out of energy. Fortunately, efficient power management schemes provide some relief...
[25 Aug 2007]
whitepaper The work discussed in this paper presents the real-time design and analysis of VigilNet, a large-scale sensor network system which tracks, detects and classifies targets in a timely and energy efficient manner.
[25 Aug 2007]
whitepaper A wide variety of sensors have been incorporated into a spectrum of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) platforms, providing flexible sensing capability over a large number of low-power and inexpensive nodes.
[25 Aug 2007]
whitepaper The energy efficiency requirement of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is especially high because the sensor nodes are meant to operate without human intervention for a long period of time with little energy supply.
[23 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Handling mobility in wireless sensor networks in an energy-efficient way is a new challenge. Most of the MAC protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks assume sensors to be stationary after deployment, which usually provide very bad network...
[23 Aug 2007]
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