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MSN
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Distributed Computation of Maximum Lifetime Spanning Subgraphs in Sensor Networks
Abstract. We present a simple and efficient distributed method for determining the transmission power assignment that maximises the lifetime of a data-gathering wireless sensor net...
Harri Haanpää, André Schumacher, ...
MSN
2007
Springer
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QoS-Aware Cooperative and Opportunistic Scheduling Exploiting Multi-user Diversity for Rate Adaptive Ad Hoc Networks
— The recent researches in wireless networks prompt the opportunistic transmission that exploiting channel fluctuations to improve the overall system performance. In wireless ad...
Zhisheng Niu
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
On the integration of sensor networks and general purpose IT infrastructure
Integrating sensor networks with general purpose IT infrastructure has been confirmed as a complex problem in the development and management of industrial sensor applications. Th...
Wouter Horré, Sam Michiels, Nelson Matthys,...
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A piggybacking approach to reduce overhead in sensor network gossiping
Many wireless sensor network protocols are employing gossipbased message dissemination, where nodes probabilistically forward messages, to reduce message overhead. We are concerne...
Ercan Ucan, Nathanael Thompson, Indranil Gupta
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Life cycle support for sensor network applications
Developing applications for sensor networks is a challenging task. Most programming systems narrowly focus on programming issues while ignoring that programming represents only a ...
Urs Bischoff, Gerd Kortuem
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
SPS: a middleware for multi-user sensor systems
With the increased realisation of the benefits of studying environmental data, sensor networks are rapidly scaling in size, heterogeneity of data, and applications. In this paper...
Salman Taherian, Jean Bacon
MDM
2007
Springer
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Collaboratively Querying Sensor Networks through Handheld Devices
We envision that in some wireless sensor network applications, such as environmental monitoring, assisted living, and industrial control, handheld devices will be used from time t...
Tsz Wai Chiu, Qiong Luo
MDM
2007
Springer
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Infrastructure for Data Processing in Large-Scale Interconnected Sensor Networks
Abstract—With the price of wireless sensor technologies diminishing rapidly we can expect large numbers of autonomous sensor networks being deployed in the near future. These sen...
Karl Aberer, Manfred Hauswirth, Ali Salehi
IPSN
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A group tour guide system with RFIDs and wireless sensor networks
This paper proposes a new application framework for group tour guiding services based on RFIDs and wireless sensor network. We consider a sensing field mixed with multiple indepe...
Po-Yu Chen, Wen Tseun Chen, Cheng Han Wu, Yu-Chee ...
IPSN
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
The design and evaluation of a mobile sensor/actuator network for autonomous animal control
Tim Wark, Christopher Crossman, Wen Hu, Ying Guo, ...