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WISEC
2010
ACM
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Zeroing-in on network metric minima for sink location determination
The locations of base stations are critically important to the viability of wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we examine the location privacy problem from both the attack a...
Zhenhua Liu, Wenyuan Xu
WWIC
2004
Springer
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Connecting Wireless Sensornets with TCP/IP Networks
Wireless sensor networks are based on the collaborative efforts of many small wireless sensor nodes, which collectively are able to form networks through which sensor information c...
Adam Dunkels, Juan Alonso, Thiemo Voigt, Hartmut R...
NPC
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Online Mining in Sensor Networks
Online mining in large sensor networks just starts to attract interest. Finding patterns in such an environment is both compelling and challenging. The goal of this position paper ...
Xiuli Ma, Dongqing Yang, Shiwei Tang, Qiong Luo, D...
MIDDLEWARE
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A message-oriented middleware for sensor networks
The miniaturization of hardware components has lead to the development of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and networked-applications over them. Meanwhile, middleware systems have a...
Eduardo Souto, Germano Guimarães, Glauco Va...
MDM
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Prediction-Based Strategies for Energy Saving in Object Tracking Sensor Networks
In order to fully realize the potential of sensor networks, energy awareness should be incorporated into every stage of the network design and operation. In this paper, we address...
Yingqi Xu, Julian Winter, Wang-Chien Lee
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Backcasting: adaptive sampling for sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks provide an attractive approach to spatially monitoring environments. Wireless technology makes these systems relatively flexible, but also places heavy d...
Rebecca Willett, Aline Martin, Robert Nowak
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Entropy-based sensor selection heuristic for target localization
We propose an entropy-based sensor selection heuristic for localization. Given 1) a prior probability distribution of the target location, and 2) the locations and the sensing mod...
Hanbiao Wang, Kung Yao, Gregory J. Pottie, Deborah...
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
How to distribute sensors in a random field?
In this paper, we study the optimal way of distributing sensors in a random field to minimize the estimation distortion. We show that this problem is equivalent to certain proble...
Xin Zhang, Stephen B. Wicker
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Locally constructed algorithms for distributed computations in ad-hoc networks
In this paper we develop algorithms for distributed computation of a broad range of estimation and detection tasks over networks with arbitrary but fixed connectivity. The distri...
Dzulkifli S. Scherber, Haralabos C. Papadopoulos
IPSN
2004
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Distributed optimization in sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks are capable of collecting an enormous amount of data over space and time. Often, the ultimate objective is to derive an estimate of a parameter or functio...
Michael Rabbat, Robert D. Nowak