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INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Cross-Layer Quality of Service Support for UWB Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
—Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are networks of wirelessly interconnected devices that allow retrieving video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data...
Tommaso Melodia, Ian F. Akyildiz
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Operator Placement and Data Caching in Large-Scale Sensor Networks
Abstract—Recent advances in computer technology and wireless communications have enabled the emergence of stream-based sensor networks. In such sensor networks, real-time data ar...
Lei Ying, Zhen Liu, Donald F. Towsley, Cathy H. Xi...
ICRA
2008
IEEE
144views Robotics» more  ICRA 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Decentralized mapping of robot-aided sensor networks
— A key problem in deploying sensor networks in real-world applications is that of mapping, i.e. determining the location of each sensor such that subsequent tasks such as tracki...
Joseph Djugash, Sanjiv Singh, Ben Grocholsky
ICPADS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Query Management in a Sensor Environment
Traditional sensor network deployments consisted of fixed infrastructures and were relatively small in size. More and more, we see the deployment of ad-hoc sensor networks with h...
Martin F. O'Connor, Vincent Andrieu, Mark Roantree
ICDE
2008
IEEE
117views Database» more  ICDE 2008»
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Region Sampling: Continuous Adaptive Sampling on Sensor Networks
Abstract— Satisfying energy constraints while meeting performance requirements is a primary concern when a sensor network is being deployed. Many recent proposed techniques offer...
Song Lin, Benjamin Arai, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Gaut...
ICC
2008
IEEE
130views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
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Energy Conservation in Reliable Wireless Sensor Networks
— Energy-ef ciency is one of the major concerns in wireless sensor networks since it impacts the network lifetime. In this paper, we investigate the relationship between sensor n...
Fatma Bouabdallah, Nizar Bouabdallah, Raouf Boutab...
ICC
2008
IEEE
160views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
14 years 6 months ago
Localization via TDOA in a UWB Sensor Network using Neural Networks
In an Ultra-wide band (UWB) sensor network signal reflections from objects can be used to accurately determine the location. UWB signals are preferred in these types of sensor ne...
Salih Ergüt, Ramesh R. Rao, Özgür D...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Decentralized set-membership adaptive estimation for clustered sensor networks
This paper proposes a clustering approach to parameter estimation in distributed sensor networks. The proposed approach is an alternative to the conventional centralized and decen...
Stefan Werner, Mobien Mohammed, Yih-Fang Huang, Vi...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Factorized variational approximations for acoustic multi source localization
Estimation based on received signal strength (RSS) is crucial in sensor networks for sensor localization, target tracking, etc. In this paper, we present a Gaussian approximation ...
Volkan Cevher, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Rama Che...
ICASSP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed average consensus in sensor networks with quantized inter-sensor communication
— The paper studies distributed average consensus in sensor networks, when the sensors exchange quantized data at each time step. We show that randomizing the exchanged sensor da...
Soummya Kar, José M. F. Moura