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EWSN
2007
Springer
16 years 4 months ago
Efficient Routing from Multiple Sources to Multiple Sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks
Initial deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were based on a many-to-one communication paradigm, where a single sink collects data from a number of data sources. Recently...
Pietro Ciciriello, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco
156
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SECON
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Decentralized Multiuser Diversity with Cooperative Relaying in Wireless Sensor Networks
— Multiuser diversity is a phenomenon caused by channel variations among different users in a wireless network. Cooperative relaying provides another form of diversity due to the...
Sam Vakil, Ben Liang
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Performance Analysis of Distributed Source Coding and Packet Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
— In this paper, we propose a theoretical setup for evaluation of energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with distributed source coding (DSC) algorithms and packet...
L. Di Paolo, Carlo Fischione, Carlo Graziosi, Fort...
125
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GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A Geometric Approach to Slot Alignment in Wireless Sensor Networks
— Traditionally, slotted communication protocols have employed guard times to delineate and align slots. These guard times may expand the slot duration significantly, especially...
Niky Riga, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Toward Optimal Data Aggregation in Random Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Data gathering is one of the most important services provided by wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Since the predominant traffic pattern in data gathering services is m...
Rong Zheng, Richard J. Barton