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IPPS
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Maximizing the Lifetime of Dominating Sets
We investigate the problem of maximizing the lifetime of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. Being battery powered, nodes in such networks have to perform their intended task und...
Thomas Moscibroda, Roger Wattenhofer
SAC
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Coverage-hole trap model in target tracking using distributed relay-robot network
Target tracking is an important issue in wireless sensor network applications. In this paper, we design a Coverage-Hole Trap Model (CTM) based on a system that contains one moving...
Huawei Miao, Chia-Ching Ooi, Xiaowen Wu, Christian...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Aloha-Based MAC Protocols with Collision Avoidance for Underwater Acoustic Networks
— Unlike terrestrial networks that mainly rely on radio waves for communications, underwater networks utilize acoustic waves, which have comparatively lower loss and longer range...
Nitthita Chirdchoo, Wee-Seng Soh, Kee Chaing Chua
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Towards Privacy-Sensitive Participatory Sensing
—The ubiquity of mobile devices has brought forth the concept of participatory sensing, whereby ordinary citizens can now contribute and share information from the urban environm...
Kuan Lun Huang, Salil S. Kanhere, Wen Hu
MOBISYS
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Micro-Blog: sharing and querying content through mobile phones and social participation
Recent years have witnessed the impacts of distributed content sharing (Wikipedia, Blogger), social networks (Facebook, MySpace), sensor networks, and pervasive computing. We beli...
Al Schmidt, Jack Li, Landon P. Cox, Romit Roy Chou...