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MOBICOM
2005
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Challenges: communication through silence in wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically characterized by a limited energy supply at sensor nodes. Hence, energy efficiency is an important issue in the system design and op...
Yujie Zhu, Raghupathy Sivakumar
MASS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Know your neighborhood: A strategy for energy-efficient communication
Wireless sensor networks typically conserve energy by following a periodic wakeup-sleep schedule: nodes minimize idle time and spend most of their time in a low power sleep state. ...
Farhana Ashraf, Riccardo Crepaldi, Robin Kravets

Publication
402views
15 years 7 months ago
Geometric Broadcast Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Networks
We present Geometric Broadcast for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks (GBS), a novel broad- casting protocol for heterogeneous wireless sensor and actor networks. While broadcasting is ...
V. Paruchuri, A. Durresi, Raj Jain
UCS
2007
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Media Access Protocol for Proactive Discovery in Ubiquitous Wireless Networks
A MAC protocol is proposed for proactive discovery in which wireless devices periodically broadcast packets containing presence or service information. The protocol is based on Fra...
Pavel Poupyrev, Peter Davis, Hiroyuki Morikawa
CNSR
2004
IEEE
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14 years 21 days ago
CSN: A Network Protocol for Serving Dynamic Queries in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
A fundamental problem that confronts future applications of sensor networks is how to efficiently locate the sensor node that stores a particular data item. It is known that distr...
Muneeb Ali, Zartash Afzal Uzmi