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- Model-Based Validation of QoS Properties of Biomedical Sensor Networks
- A Biomedical Sensor Network BSN is a small-size sensor network for medical applications, that may contain tens of sensor nodes. This paper presents a formal model for BSNs using timed automata, where the sensor nodes communicate using the Chipcon CC2420 transceiver developed by Texas Instruments according to the IEEE 802.15.4...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Sensor, Biomedical, Biomedical Sensor Network, Sensor Node, Healthcare
- White papers 2008-04-18
- Local Update-Based Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sinks
- Mobile sinks can be a viable solution to solve the problem that energy consumption is not balanced for all the sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs. Frequent location updates from the sink a current possible solution can lead to both rapid energy consumption of the sensor nodes and increased...
- Tags: City University, Mobile, Network, Sensor, Routing Protocol, Sensor Node, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-09-28
- 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
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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
- Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
- Localization is crucial to many applications in wireless sensor networks. This paper proposes a range-free anchor-based localization algorithm for mobile wireless sensor networks that builds upon the Monte Carlo Localization algorithm. The paper concentrates on improving the localization accuracy and efficiency by making better use of the information a sensor...
- Tags: Mobile, Network, Localization, Sensor, Wi-Fi, Engineering, Wireless
- White papers 2006-09-28
- TCP Support for Sensor Networks
- Communication between sensors and controlling entities at the edge or outside the sensor network is needed for reliable remote sensor node management and reprogramming. 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 reducing...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, TCP, Sensor Network, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2006-12-02
- 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
- On Base Station Selection for Anycast Flow Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
- Energy constraints have had a significant impact on the design and operation of wireless sensor networks. This paper investigates base station selection or anycast problem in wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor network having multiple base stations data sink nodes is considered where each source node must send all its...
- Tags: Base Station, Network, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2005-11-21
- 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
- Geometric Broadcast Protocol for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
- This paper presents Geometric Broadcast for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks GBS, a novel broad-casting protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor and actor networks. While broadcasting is a very energy expensive protocol, it is also widely used as a building block for a variety of other network layer protocols. Therefore, reducing the energy...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, Protocol, GBS, Networking
- White papers 2005-08-08
- Design and Optimization of Distributed Sensing Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
- For many sensor network applications such as military surveillance, it is necessary to provide full sensing coverage to a security-sensitive area while at the same time minimizing energy consumption and extending system lifetime by leveraging the redundant deployment of sensor nodes. This paper proposes a surveillance service for sensor networks...
- Tags: University Of Virginia, Optimization, Network, Sensor, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2007-05-22
- Robust Node Localization for Wireless Sensor Networks
- The node localization problem in Wireless Sensor Networks has received considerable attention, driven by the need to obtain a higher location accuracy without incurring a large, per node, cost (dollar cost, power consumption and form factor). Despite the efforts made, no system has emerged as a robust, practical, solution for...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, Association For Computing Machinery, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-06-26
- Constructing Wireless Sensor Networks Via Effective Topology Maintenance and Querying
- The ability of properly covering the terrain under investigation and collecting measurements from redundantly sensed portions of the terrain are two important objectives for monitoring applications using wireless sensor networks. Here, a new architectural view of information retrieval for XML compliant environmental monitoring applications is introduced. The sensor network is...
- Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, Wireless, Monitoring Application, Sensor Network
- White papers
- 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
- A Protocol Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks WSN is a new class of networking technology that is increasingly becoming popular nowadays. Huge strides taken in sensing technology, low-power microcontrollers and communication radio have spurred the mass production of relatively inexpensive sensor nodes. Such large scale sensor networks far outweigh use of conventional networks in...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, University Of Utah, Wireless, Wireless Sensor Networks, Networking
- White papers
- A High-Density Earthquake Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks
- This paper presents a high-density earthquake monitoring system using wireless sensor networks. For high-precision monitoring, the paper developed Pavenet OS, which is a hard-realtime operating system for sensor nodes, and acceleration sensor board. Sensor nodes of the system sample acceleration with less than 0.3 us jitter with Pavenet OS. The...
- Tags: Network, High-density, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, University Of Tokyo
- White papers 2007-11-09
- Collaborative Signal Reinforcement in Sensor Networks
- Sensor networks can be used for various application areas such as health, military, and home. Research in collaborative methods and wireless communication has enabled the development of sensor networks. This paper presents a collaborative signal reinforcement scheme for sensor networks in which a cluster of mobile, independent and interchangeable nodes...
- Tags: Virginia Tech, Network, Sensor, Reinforcement, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-02-23
- 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
- Efficient and Density-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Point-to-point routing is central to communication networks. This paper presents a novel addressing and routing scheme for wireless sensor networks. The base of the approach on the observation that in real applications, sensors are usually deployed in groups; while it is impractical to predict the landing location for each individual...
- Tags: Aware, Network, Sensor, Wireless
- White papers 2006-05-03
- The Design and Implementation of an IP-Based Sensor Network for Intrusion Monitoring
- This paper presents an experimental deployment of an IP-based wireless sensor network that is intended to operate as an intrusion monitoring system. This network is the first actual deployment of a fully IP-based wireless sensor network with small and computationally constrained sensor nodes. The intrusion monitoring system detects motion in...
- Tags: Network, Monitoring, Sensor, IP, Intrusion, Wireless, Intrusion Monitoring System, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
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