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- Sensor Relocation With Mobile Sensors: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
- Mobile sensors are useful in many environments because they can move to increase the sensing coverage. This paper presents a mobile sensor prototype in which the Mica2 sensor node is used to control the movement of the robot built with Commercial Off-The-Shelf COTS components. The authors use a sensor relocation...
- Tags: Pennsylvania State University, Mobile, Sensor, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-07-23
- Bidding Protocols for Deploying Mobile Sensors
- Constructing a sensor network with a mix of mobile and static sensors can achieve a balance between sensor coverage and sensor cost. This paper designs two bidding protocols to guide the movement of mobile sensors in such sensor networks to increase the coverage to a desirable level. In the protocols,...
- Tags: Mobile, Sensor, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Location and Mobility in a Sensor Network of Mobile Phones
- Mobile phones have two sensors: a camera and a microphone. The goal in this position paper it to explore the use of these sensors for building an audio-visual sensor network that exploits the deployed base of millions of mobile phones worldwide. Among the several salient features of such a sensor...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Mobility, Cell Phone
- White papers 2007-03-04
- Resource-Aware Service Architecture for Mobile Services in Wireless Sensor Networks
- After deployment of sensor nodes, the software of sensor nodes usually cannot be changed anymore. Thus, dynamical changing requests to the network and adaptations of the evaluation methods are not possible. This paper presents a service architecture Resource-Aware Service Architecture RASA for small, mobile, and resource-critical sensor networks. This architecture...
- Tags: Aware, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Wireless, Sensor Node, Networking
- White papers 2006-03-15
- Localization for Mobile Sensor Networks
- Many sensor network applications require location awareness, but it is often too expensive to include a GPS receiver in a sensor network node. Hence, localization schemes for sensor networks typically use a small number of seed nodes that know their location and protocols whereby other nodes estimate their location from...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Localization, Sensor, Node, Networking
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Data Harvesting With Mobile Elements in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Off late, using Mobile Elements MEs as mechanical carriers to relay data has been shown to be an effective way of prolonging sensor network life time and relaying information in partitioned networks. As the data generation rates of sensors may vary, some sensors need to be visited more frequently than...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-03-07
- Reconfiguration Methods for Mobile Sensor Networks
- Motion may be used in sensor networks to change the network configuration for improving the sensing performance. This paper considers the problem of controlling motion in a distributed manner for a mobile sensor network for a specific form of motion capability. Mobility itself may have a high resource overhead, hence...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Mobility, Association For Computing Machinery, Networking
- White papers 2007-03-21
- Towards TCP/IP for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless sensor networks are composed of large numbers - up to thousands - of tiny radio-equipped sensors. Every sensor has a small microprocessor with enough power to allow the sensors to autonomously form networks through which sensor information is gathered. Wireless sensor networks makes it possible to monitor places like...
- Tags: TCP/IP, Network, Sensor, Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Optimal Itinerary Analysis for Mobile Agents in Ad Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
- One of the most important problems studied in any sensor network is data fusion. Client/server paradigm has been a commonly used computing model in traditional Distributed Sensor Networks DSNs. However, the deployment of Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs and its ad hoc nature have brought new challenges to the fusion task....
- Tags: Advertisement, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Fusion, Analysis, Client/server Paradigm, Networking
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- An Adaptive Mobility-Aware MAC Protocol for Sensor Networks (MS-MAC)
- Most of the MAC protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks assume sensors to be stationary after deployment, which usually provide very bad network performance in scenarios involving mobile sensors. Handling mobility in wireless sensor networks in an energy-efficient way is a new challenge. Techniques developed for other mobile networks, such...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Mobility, Protocol, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2004-10-14
- Mobile Emulab: A Robotic Wireless and Sensor Network Testbed
- Simulation has been the dominant research methodology in wireless and sensor networking. When mobility is added, real-world experimentation is especially rare. However, it is becoming clear that simulation models do not sufficiently capture radio and sensor irregularity in a complex, real-world environment, especially indoors. Unfortunately, the high labor and equipment...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Experimentation, University Of Utah, Simulation, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2006-04-01
- Balancing Sensing and Coverage in Mobile Sensor Networks: Aggregation Based Approach
- The paper studies how to assign mobile robots in a mobile wireless sensor network to different tasks that the network must perform so that each task receives its fair share of the resources in the network. In particular, it addresses the case when a set of autonomous mobile sensing robots...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Sensor, Region, Robots, Advertising & Promotion, Emerging Technologies, Marketing
- White papers 2007-06-13
- Performance Study of Organization and Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Clustering is a proven method for enhancing the scalability of ad hoc mobile networks. It can also enhance the energy efficiency and a lifetime of large sensor networks typically deployed in sensitive environments, such as seismic zones, or in smart environments. Energy efficiency is crucial due to the limited power...
- Tags: Performance, Network, Clustering, Sensor, Wireless, Energy Efficiency, Networking
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- GPS-Free Node Localization in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
- An important problem in mobile ad-hoc wireless sensor networks is the localization of individual nodes, i.e., each node's awareness of its position relative to the network. This paper introduces a variant of this problem directional localization where each node must be aware of both its position and orientation relative to...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Localization, Sensor, Wireless, Sensor Network, GPS, Handhelds, Networking, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware
- White papers 2006-06-25
- iStuff Mobile: Prototyping Interactions for Mobile Phones in Interactive Spaces
- iStuff Mobile is a rapid prototyping platform that helps explore novel interactions that combine sensor enhanced mobile phones and interactive spaces. The toolkit includes sensor network platforms, mobile phone software, and a proven rapid prototyping framework. Interaction designers can use iStuff Mobile to quickly create and test novel interactions without...
- Tags: Phone, Mobile, Interaction, Aachen University, Toolkit, Cell Phone, iStuff Mobile, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2006-03-14
- NanoMon: A Flexible Sensor Network Monitoring Software
- This paper presents a sensor network monitoring software, named NanoMon, which has a highly flexible architecture and is able to support various user requirements arising in their individual wireless sensor network applications in an adaptive manner: With NanoMon, users can specify their own sensor types and custom GUI components by...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, Network Monitoring, Sensor Network Application, NanoMon GUI, Network Administration, Networking
- White papers 2007-02-05
- Placement, Coordination and Tasking of Static and Mobile Sensor Networks
- Sensor networks consist of nodes that can measure characteristics of their local environment, perform computations, and communicate with each other over a wireless network. In recent years, advancements in hardware and low-level software have led to viable, medium-scale sensor networks consisting of hundreds of nodes that can instrument unstructured environments...
- Tags: Carnegie-Mellon University, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Networking
- White papers 2006-06-01
- Energy-Efficient TCP Operation in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Many applications of wireless sensor networks require connectivity to external networks to let monitoring and controlling entities communicate with the sensors. By using the TCP/IP protocols inside the sensor network, external connectivity can be achieved anywhere in the sensor network. In such IP-based sensor networks, TCP can be used for...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, TCP, Wireless, Sensor Network, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2005-03-02
- A Framework for Querying Sensor Networks Using Mobile Devices
- An interplay between mobile devices and static sensor nodes is envisioned in the near future. This will enable a heterogeneous design space that can offset the stringent resource and power constraints encountered in traditional static sensor networks by taking advantage of the more powerful mobile devices. As such, this paper...
- Tags: University Of Illinois, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Mobile Device, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing
- White papers 2007-05-22
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