Current distributed database and stream processing systems assume that the network connecting nodes in the data processor is "always on," and that the absence of a netwo...
Yang Zhang, Bret Hull, Hari Balakrishnan, Samuel M...
— Many tasks require multiple sensing capabilities; in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN), it is expensive to deploy a homogeneous network wherein every sensor has the same functiona...
Xiaoming Lu, Matt Spear, Karl N. Levitt, Shyhtsun ...
Efficiently self organizing a network hierarchy with specific assignment of roles (or tasks) to sensors based on their physical wireless connectivity and sensing characteristics ...
Manish Kochhal, Loren Schwiebert, Sandeep K. S. Gu...
—Body sensor networks (BSNs) have been developed for a set of performance-critical applications, including smart healthcare, assisted living, emergency response, athletic perform...
Zhen Ren, Gang Zhou, Andrew Pyles, Matthew Keally,...
Wireless sensor networks are expected to be deployed in harsh environments characterized by extremely poor and fluctuating channel conditions. With the generally adopted single-s...