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REALWSN
2010
13 years 7 months ago
Motes in the Jungle: Lessons Learned from a Short-Term WSN Deployment in the Ecuador Cloud Forest
We study the characteristics of the communication links of a wireless sensor network in a tropical cloud forest in Ecuador, in the context of a wildlife monitoring application. Thi...
Matteo Ceriotti, Matteo Chini, Amy L. Murphy, Gian...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
APL: Autonomous Passive Localization for Wireless Sensors Deployed in Road Networks
Abstract—In road networks, sensors are deployed sparsely (hundreds of meters apart) to save costs. This makes the existing localization solutions based on the ranging be ineffect...
Jaehoon Jeong, Shuo Guo, Tian He, David Du
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Logical Topology Design and Interface Assignment for Multi-Channel Wireless Mesh Networks
Abstract— A multi-channel wireless mesh network (MCWMN) consists of a number of stationary wireless routers, where each router is equipped with multiple network interface cards (...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vincent W. S. Wong
CORR
2008
Springer
131views Education» more  CORR 2008»
13 years 8 months ago
Towards a More Accurate Carrier Sensing Model for CSMA Wireless Networks
Abstract--In the majority of studies on CSMA wireless networks, a contention graph is used to model the carrier sensing relationships among links. This is a 0-1 model in which two ...
Caihong Kai, Soung Chang Liew
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
179views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
14 years 9 months ago
Energy and rate based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Abstract-- Sensor networks are typically unattended because of their deployment in hazardous, hostile or remote environments. This makes the problem of conserving energy at individ...
Rajgopal Kannan, Ramaraju Kalidindi, S. Sitharama ...