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IEEECIT
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
An Energy-Efficient Localization Scheme with Specified Lower Bound for Wireless Sensor Networks
Localization is a basic and critical requirement for wireless sensor network applications, e.g. target tracking, monitoring and intrusion detection. In the received signal strengt...
Haoran Feng, Ruixi Yuan, Chundi Mu
ICRA
2006
IEEE
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Placement and Distributed Deployment of Sensor Teams for Triangulation based Localization
— We address the problem of placing a sensor network so as to minimize the uncertainty in estimating the position of targets. The novelty of our formulation is in the sensing mod...
Volkan Isler
ICRA
2006
IEEE
131views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
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A Practical Algorithm for Network Topology Inference
— When a network of robots or static sensors is emplaced in an environment, the spatial relationships between the sensing units must be inferred or computed for most key applicat...
Dimitri Marinakis, Gregory Dudek
ICRA
2006
IEEE
104views Robotics» more  ICRA 2006»
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Range-only SLAM for Robots Operating Cooperatively with Sensor Networks
— A mobile robot we have developed is equipped with sensors to measure range to landmarks and can simultaneously localize itself as well as locate the landmarks. This modality is...
Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, George Kantor, Wei Z...
ICDCS
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Greedy is Good: On Service Tree Placement for In-Network Stream Processing
This paper is concerned with reducing communication costs when executing distributed user tasks in a sensor network. We take a service-oriented abstraction of sensor networks, whe...
Zoë Abrams, Jie Liu
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Integrated Data Delivery and Interest Dissemination Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
— The paper presents IRIS, an Integrated Routing and Interest dissemination System for wireless sensor networks. The proposed protocols are designed to work under very low duty c...
Michele Mastrogiovanni, Chiara Petrioli, Michele R...
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Blocking Vulnerable Paths of Wireless Sensor Networks
— In this work, we study the topology enhancement problem of wireless sensor networks. Our research focuses on reducing the path-based vulnerability. The objective is to get as m...
Shu Zhou, Min-You Wu, Wei Shu
GLOBECOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Online Calibration of Path Loss Exponent in Wireless Sensor Networks
— The path loss exponent (PLE) is a parameter indicating the rate at which the received signal strength (RSS) decreases with distance, and its value depends on the specific prop...
Guoqiang Mao, Brian D. O. Anderson, Baris Fidan
DSD
2006
IEEE
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Lifetime Analysis in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are composed of battery-driven communication entities performing multiple, usually different tasks. In order to complete a given task, all sensor no...
Falko Dressler, Isabel Dietrich
DATE
2006
IEEE
78views Hardware» more  DATE 2006»
14 years 5 months ago
Wireless sensor networks and beyond
—Wireless Sensor Networks provide opportunities even outside their usual application domain of environmental monitoring. In this paper we present a case study on the use of Wirel...
Paul J. M. Havinga