Harvesting energy from the environment is a desirable and increasingly important capability in several emerging applications of embedded systems such as sensor networks, biomedica...
We consider the problem of monitoring spatial phenomena, such as road speeds on a highway, using wireless sensors with limited battery life. A central question is to decide where ...
Andreas Krause, Ram Rajagopal, Anupam Gupta, Carlo...
—The presence of heterogeneous nodes (i.e., nodes with an enhanced energy capacity or communication capability) in a sensor network is known to increase network reliability and l...
Mark D. Yarvis, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Harkirat...
Habitat and environmental monitoring is a driving application for wireless sensor networks. We present an analysis of data from a second generation sensor networks deployed during...
Robert Szewczyk, Alan M. Mainwaring, Joseph Polast...
: Coverage is an important optimization objective in pre and post-deployment stage of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). In this paper, we address the issue of placing a finite set o...