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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
To sustain perpetual operation, systems that harvest environmental energy must carefully regulate their usage to satisfy their demand. Regulating energy usage is challenging if a s...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Wireless LANs have been widely deployed as edge access networks in home/office/commercial buildings, providing connection to the Internet. Therefore, performance of end-toend conne...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
In this paper, we address several problems that arise in the context of rotating directional sensors. Rotating directional sensors (RDS) have a "directional" coverage reg...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract--Directional antennas offer many potential advantages for wireless networks such as increased network capacity, extended transmission range and reduced energy consumption....
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract--With the convergence of ultra-low-power communications and energy-harvesting technologies, networking selfsustainable ubiquitous devices is becoming feasible. Hence, we h...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Abstract--Today's mobile devices support many wireless technologies to achieve ubiquitous connectivity. Economic and energy constraints, however, drive the industry to impleme...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Market mechanisms have been exploited as important means for spectrum acquisition and access in cognitive radio networks. In this paper, we propose a two-tier market for decentrali...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
Once, satellites were considered an important option for creating global Internet access. However, for a period of time, satellites were supplanted by other ground-based technologi...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
The predictable trajectory of underwater gliders can be used in geographic routing protocols. Factors such as drifting and localization errors cause uncertainty when estimating a g...
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2010
IEEE
13 years 6 months ago
2010
IEEE
We introduce the Egs mote platform based on the Cortex M3 microcontroller that focuses on medical sensing applications. Egs uses an Atmel SAM3U microcontroller that runs up to 96 M...