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VTC
2008
IEEE
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15 years 10 months ago
A Novel Load Balanced and Lifetime Maximization Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Balancing energy consumption and prolonging network lifetime are open challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks. In this paper, we design a novel load balanced routing pro...
Chengjie Wu, Ruixi Yuan, Hongchao Zhou
SECON
2008
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
SYNAPSE: A Network Reprogramming Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Fountain Codes
—Wireless reprogramming is a key functionality in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In fact, the requirements for the network may change in time, or new parameters might have to b...
Michele Rossi, Giovanni Zanca, Luca Stabellini, Ri...
JCM
2006
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15 years 3 months ago
T-ANT: A Nature-Inspired Data Gathering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
There are many difficult challenges ahead in the design of an energy-efficient communication stack for wireless sensor networks. Due to the severe sensor node constraints, protocol...
S. Selvakennedy, Sukunesan Sinnappan, Yi Shang
COMCOM
2007
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15 years 4 months ago
Power control and fairness MAC mechanisms for 802.11 WLANs
Exploiting spatial reuse opportunities will allow more parallel transmissions and improve the throughput of wireless networks. Power control is one of the major mechanisms used to...
Chih-Yung Chang, Hsu-Ruey Chang
MOBICOM
1999
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Reversing the Collision-Avoidance Handshake in Wireless Networks
Many medium-access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks proposed or implemented to date are based on collisionavoidance handshakes between sender and receiver. In the vas...
J. J. Garcia-Luna-Aceves, Asimakis Tzamaloukas