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ADHOCNOW
2008
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
DIN: An Ad-Hoc Algorithm to Estimate Distances in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract. A current challenge in wireless sensor networks is the positioning of sensor nodes for indoor environments without dedicated hardware. Especially in this domain, many app...
Freddy López Villafuerte, Jochen H. Schille...
SAC
2008
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Error estimation in wireless sensor networks
We present an analogy between the operation of a Wireless Sensor Network and the sampling and reconstruction of a signal. We measure the impact of three factors on the quality of ...
Alejandro César Frery, Heitor Ramos, Jos&ea...
ICC
2008
IEEE
115views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
15 years 10 months ago
Joint Power Scheduling and Estimator Design for Sensor Networks Across Parallel Channels
—This paper addresses the joint estimator and power optimization problem for a sensor network whose mission is to estimate an unknown parameter. We assume a two-hop network where...
Lauren M. Huie, Xiang He, Aylin Yener
PERCOM
2006
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
Using buddies to live longer in a boring world
In a sensor network monitoring natural environment, the readings of sensor nodes show high temporal and spatial correlation. This stems from the fact that most characteristics of ...
Samir Goel, Tomasz Imielinski, Andrea Passarella
VLDB
2005
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 2005»
15 years 9 months ago
U-DBMS: A Database System for Managing Constantly-Evolving Data
In many systems, sensors are used to acquire information from external environments such as temperature, pressure and locations. Due to continuous changes in these values, and lim...
Reynold Cheng, Sarvjeet Singh, Sunil Prabhakar