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INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Toward Optimal Data Aggregation in Random Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Data gathering is one of the most important services provided by wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Since the predominant traffic pattern in data gathering services is m...
Rong Zheng, Richard J. Barton
COMSWARE
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Sensor Network Deployment For Agronomical Data Gathering in Semi-Arid Regions
— We share our experience in planning, designing and deploying a wireless sensor network of one square kilometre area. Environmental data such as soil moisture, temperature, baro...
Tamma V. Prabhakar, N. V. Chalapathi Rao, M. S. Su...
NTMS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
An Autonomous Data Gathering Scheme Adaptive to Sensing Requirements for Industrial Environment Monitoring
—In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the frequency of sensing and data gathering depends on application requirements and surrounding conditions. In this paper, we propose a data ...
Yoshiaki Taniguchi, Naoki Wakamiya, Masayuki Murat...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On the Construction of a Maximum-Lifetime Data Gathering Tree in Sensor Networks: NP-Completeness and Approximation Algorithm
Abstract—Energy efficiency is critical for wireless sensor networks. The data gathering process must be carefully designed to conserve energy and extend the network lifetime. Fo...
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
A Mobility Prediction-Based Adaptive Data Gathering Protocol for Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network
— The basic operation of Delay Tolerant Mobile Sensor Network (DTMSN) is for pervasive data gathering in networks with intermittent connectivity, where traditional data gathering...
Jinqi Zhu, Jiannong Cao, Ming Liu, Yuan Zheng, Hai...
MDM
2009
Springer
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14 years 7 months ago
Data Gathering by Mobile Mules in a Spatially Separated Wireless Sensor Network
While wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are typically targeted at large-scale deployment, due to many practical or inevitable reasons, a WSN may not always remain connected. In this...
Fang-Jing Wu, Chi-Fu Huang, Yu-Chee Tseng
IROS
2009
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Data gathering tours for mobile robots
— We study a path planning problem which arises when multiple robots are used to gather data from stationary devices with wireless communication capabilities. Each device has a g...
Deepak Bhadauria, Volkan Isler
NAS
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
TinyBee: Mobile-Agent-Based Data Gathering System in Wireless Sensor Networks
—This paper proposes a mobile-agent-based data gathering system (called TinyBee) in wireless sensor networks. Most existing mobile-agent-based systems consider only static sinks/...
Kaoru Ota, Mianxiong Dong, Xiaolin Li