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TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
SenseLess: A Database-Driven White Spaces Network
The FCC ruling on Nov 4th, 2008 on white spaces has opened up the possibility of wireless network deployments over white spaces, i.e., vacant UHF TV channels. A key requirement fo...
Rohan Murty, Ranveer Chandra, Thomas Moscibroda, P...
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Protecting Location Privacy in Sensor Networks against a Global Eavesdropper
— While many protocols for sensor network security provide confidentiality for the content of messages, contextual information usually remains exposed. Such information can be c...
Kiran Mehta, Donggang Liu, Matthew Wright
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Secure Initialization of Multiple Constrained Wireless Devices for an Unaided User
—A number of protocols and mechanisms have been proposed to address the problem of initial secure key deployment in wireless networks. Most existing approaches work either with a...
Toni Perkovic, Mario Cagalj, Toni Mastelic, Nitesh...
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Trajectory-Based Statistical Forwarding for Multihop Infrastructure-to-Vehicle Data Delivery
—This paper proposes Trajectory-based Statistical Forwarding (TSF) scheme, tailored for the multihop data delivery from infrastructure nodes (e.g., Internet access points) to mov...
Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong, Shuo Guo, Yu (Jason) Gu, Tia...
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Network Coding in Cooperative Communications: Friend or Foe?
—A major benefit of employing network coding (NC) in cooperative communications (CC) is its ability to reduce time-slot overhead. Such approach is called network-coded CC (or NC...
Sushant Sharma, Yi Shi, Jia Liu, Y. Thomas Hou, Sa...
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Compressed-Sensing-Enabled Video Streaming for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
—This article1 presents the design of a networked system for joint compression, rate control and error correction of video over resource-constrained embedded devices based on the...
Scott Pudlewski, Arvind Prasanna, Tommaso Melodia
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
A Statistical Mechanics-Based Framework to Analyze Ad Hoc Networks with Random Access
—Characterizing the performance of ad hoc networks is one of the most intricate open challenges; conventional ideas based on information-theoretic techniques and inequalities hav...
Sunil Srinivasa, Martin Haenggi
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
The Boomerang Protocol: Tying Data to Geographic Locations in Mobile Disconnected Networks
—We present the boomerang protocol to efficiently retain information at a particular geographic location in a sparse network of highly mobile nodes without using infrastructure ...
Tingting Sun, Bin Zan, Yanyong Zhang, Marco Grutes...
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Mobile Data Offloading through Opportunistic Communications and Social Participation
—3G networks are currently overloaded, due to the increasing popularity of various applications for smartphones. Offloading mobile data traffic through opportunistic communicatio...
Bo Han, Pan Hui, V. S. Anil Kumar, Madhav V. Marat...
TMC
2012
12 years 2 months ago
Fast Data Collection in Tree-Based Wireless Sensor Networks
—We investigate the following fundamental question—how fast can information be collected from a wireless sensor network organized as tree? To address this, we explore and evalu...
Özlem Durmaz Incel, Amitabha Ghosh, Bhaskar K...