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INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
On the Construction of a Maximum-Lifetime Data Gathering Tree in Sensor Networks: NP-Completeness and Approximation Algorithm
Abstract—Energy efficiency is critical for wireless sensor networks. The data gathering process must be carefully designed to conserve energy and extend the network lifetime. Fo...
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
SECON
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Two-Tiered Constrained Relay Node Placement in Wireless Sensor Networks: Efficient Approximations
In a wireless sensor network, short range multihop transmissions are preferred to prolong the network lifetime due to super-linear nature of energy consumption with communication d...
Dejun Yang, Satyajayant Misra, Xi Fang, Guoliang X...
QSHINE
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Joint Optimization of System Lifetime and Network Performance for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks
Maximizing the aggregate network utility and minimizing the network energy consumption are important but conflict goals in wireless sensor networks. Challenges arise due to the app...
Lei Rao, Xue Liu, Jian-Jia Chen, Wenyu Liu
ISCC
2007
IEEE
164views Communications» more  ISCC 2007»
14 years 1 months ago
DTSN: Distributed Transport for Sensor Networks
: This paper presents the Distributed Transport for Sensor Networks (DTSN), a novel reliable transport protocol for convergecast and unicast communications in Wireless Sensor Netwo...
Bruno Marchi, António Grilo, Mário S...
MDM
2009
Springer
123views Communications» more  MDM 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Operator Placement for Snapshot Multi-predicate Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks
— This work aims at minimize the cost of answering snapshot multi-predicate queries in high-communication-cost networks. High-communication-cost (HCC) networks is a family of net...
Georgios Chatzimilioudis, Huseyin Hakkoymaz, Nikos...