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- 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
- Connecting Wireless Sensornets With TCP/IP Networks
- Wireless sensor networks are based on the collaborative efforts of many small wireless sensor nodes, which collectively are able to form networks through which sensor information can be gathered. Such networks usually cannot operate in complete isolation, but must be connected to an external network through which monitoring and controlling...
- Tags: Network, Wireless, Sensor Network, Tcp/Ip, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-01
- 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 Security Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless sensor networks are result of developments in micro electro mechanical systems and wireless networks. These networks are made of tiny nodes which are becoming future of many applications where sensor networks are deployed in hostile environments. The deployment nature where sensor networks are prone to physical interaction with environment...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, University Of Sydney, Sensor Network, Security Measure, Security, Wireless
- White papers 2006-02-09
- Distributed TCP Caching for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Many applications of wireless sensor networks are useful only when connected to an external network. Previous research on transport layer protocols for sensor networks has focused on designing protocols specifically targeted for sensor networks. The deployment of TCP/IP in sensor networks would, however, enable direct connection between the sensor network...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, TCP, Sensor Network, Tcp/Ip, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless
- White papers 2007-01-01
- 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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- MMSN: Multi-Frequency Media Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
- Multi-frequency media access control has been well understood in general wireless ad hoc networks, while in wireless sensor networks, researchers still focus on single frequency solutions. In wireless sensor networks, each device is typically equipped with a single radio transceiver and applications adopt much smaller packet sizes compared to those...
- Tags: MAC, Network, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-12-14
- Wireless Sensor Network Security: A Survey
- As wireless sensor networks continue to grow, so does the need for effective security mechanisms. Because sensor networks may interact with sensitive data and/or operate in hostile unattended environments, it is imperative that these security concerns be addressed from the beginning of the system design. However, due to inherent resource...
- Tags: Wireless Sensor Network, Survey, Wireless, CRC Press, Security
- White papers 2006-07-28
- Topological Hole Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks and Its Applications
- The identification of holes in a wireless sensor network is of primary interest since the breakdown of sensor nodes in a larger area often indicates one of the special events to be monitored by the network in the first place (e.g. outbreak of a fire, destruction by an earthquakes etc.)....
- Tags: Network, Stanford University, Sensor, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2005-08-02
- Applying Intrusion Detection Systems to Wireless Sensor Networks
- The research of Intrusion Detection Systems IDS is a mature area in wired networks, and has also attracted many attentions in wireless ad hoc networks recently. Nevertheless, there is no previous work reported in the literature about IDS architectures in wireless sensor networks. This paper discusses the general guidelines for...
- Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Intrusion Detection System, Wireless, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2006-07-24
- An Investigation Into Intra-Vehicle Sensor Networks
- Wireless sensor networks enable the development of distributed sensing applications atop tiny "Mote" computing platforms. As a result, collections of these motes can be placed in an environment in order to collect data unobtrusively. This paper presents an investigation into the feasibility of retrofitting a vehicle with wireless sensor network...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, University Of California, Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-12-10
- Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Wireless Sensor Networks WSNs offer an excellent opportunity to monitor environments, and have a lot of interesting applications in warfare. The problem is that security mechanisms used for wired networks do not transfer directly to sensor networks. Some of this is due to the fact that there is not a...
- Tags: Intrusion Detection, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2006-05-19
- The Worst-Case Capacity of Wireless Sensor Networks
- The key application scenario of wireless sensor networks is data gathering: sensor nodes transmit data, possibly in a multi-hop fashion, to an information sink. The performance of sensor networks is thus characterized by the rate at which information can be aggregated to the sink. This paper derives the first scaling...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, Association For Computing Machinery, Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2007-04-27
- A Survey on Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
- The availability of low-cost hardware such as CMOS cameras and microphones has fostered the development of Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks WMSNs, i.e., networks of wirelessly interconnected devices that are able to ubiquitously retrieve multimedia content such as video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data from the environment....
- Tags: Multimedia, Reed Elsevier Inc., Network, Sensor, Survey, Hardware, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2006-10-05
- Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Time synchronization algorithms for traditional wired networks have been proven to be inefficient for Wireless Sensor Networks WSN. The assumptions made by traditional time synchronization protocols such as NTP are not true for sensor networks. In a wired network factors such as moderate CPU utilization, network listening and data transmission...
- Tags: Network, Sensor, Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2005-06-06
- A Taxonomy of Wireless Micro-Sensor Network Models
- In future smart environments, wireless sensor networks will play a key role in sensing, collecting, and disseminating information about environmental phenomena. Sensing applications represent a new paradigm for network operation, one that has different goals from more traditional wireless networks. This paper examines this emerging field to classify wireless micro-sensor...
- Tags: Network, Taxonomy, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless
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- ACO Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
- The recent popularity of applications based on wireless sensor networks provides a strong motivation for pushing its technological limits. The authors feel that sensor networks can benefit from some of nature's robust solutions. In this work the authors evaluate the applicability of pheromone based foraging techniques, found in many ants,...
- Tags: Network, Harvard University, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Productivity, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-15
- BodyQoS: Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks
- As wireless devices and sensors are increasingly deployed on people, researchers have begun to focus on wireless body-area networks. Applications of wireless body sensor networks include healthcare, entertainment, and personal assistance, in which sensors collect physiological and activity data from people and their environments. In these body sensor networks, quality...
- Tags: QoS, Network, Sensor, BodyQoS, Networking, Wi-Fi, Wireless
- White papers 2008-01-03
- Re-Visited: Denial of Service Resilient Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
- The appliance of wireless sensor networks to a broad variety of applications doubtlessly requires end-user acceptance. End-users from various computer network unrelated disciplines like for example from the agriculture sector, geography, health care, or biology will only use wireless sensor networks to support their daily work if the overall benefit...
- Tags: Denial Of Service, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Access Control, NEC Corp., Wireless, Networking
- White papers 2008-01-01
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