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JCM
2006
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13 years 7 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
NETWORK
2006
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13 years 7 months ago
A wireless biosensor network using autonomously controlled animals
Recent research shows that animals can be guided remotely by stimulating regions of the brain. Therefore, it is possible to set up an animal wireless sensor network for search and...
Yihan Li, Shivendra S. Panwar, Shiwen Mao
EWSN
2004
Springer
14 years 7 months ago
Lessons from a Sensor Network Expedition
Habitat monitoring is an important driving application for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Although researchers anticipate some challenges arising in the real-world deployments of...
Robert Szewczyk, Joseph Polastre, Alan M. Mainwari...
SENSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Integrated distributed energy awareness for wireless sensor networks
Energy in sensor networks is a distributed, non-transferable resource. Over time, differences in energy availability are likely to arise. Protocols like routing trees may concent...
Geoffrey Werner Challen, Jason Waterman, Matt Wels...
ICWN
2004
13 years 9 months ago
QoS Support in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
In this paper, we assess the state of the art of Quality of Services (QoS) support in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Unlike traditional end-to-end multimedia applications, many n...
Dazhi Chen, Pramod K. Varshney