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MSWIM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
On providing location privacy for mobile sinks in wireless sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks have attracted increasing attentions considering their potentials for being widely adopted in both emerging civil and military applications. A common prac...
Edith C.-H. Ngai, Ioana Rodhe
MSWIM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
The MAC unreliability problem in IEEE 802.15.4 wireless sensor networks
In recent years, the number of sensor network deployments for real-life applications has rapidly increased and it is expected to expand even more in the near future. Actually, for...
Giuseppe Anastasi, Marco Conti, Mario Di Francesco
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
A Letter Soup for the Quality of Information in Sensor Networks
—In this paper, an information grouping paradigm for QoI in sensor networks is introduced. First, a definition of QoI is presented by analyzing the ITU’s definition of QoS. T...
Chatschik Bisdikian, Joel W. Branch, Kin K. Leung,...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Securing Body Sensor Networks: Sensor Association and Key Management
—Body Sensor Networks can be used to continuously monitor patients’ health. However, secure association of sensors with the patient and key management for providing integrity a...
Sye Loong Keoh, Emil C. Lupu, Morris Sloman
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
TreeMAC: Localized TDMA MAC Protocol for Real-time High-data-rate Sensor Networks
—Earlier sensor network MAC protocols focus on energy conservation in low-duty cycle applications, while some recent applications involve real-time high-data-rate signals. This m...
Wen-Zhan Song, Renjie Huang, Behrooz Shirazi, Rich...
PERCOM
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Auction-Based Congestion Management for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
—This paper addresses the problem of providing congestion-management for a shared wireless sensor networkbased target tracking system. In many large-scale wireless sensor network...
Lei Chen 0005, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Joel W. Bran...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
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14 years 7 months ago
Deductive Framework for Programming Sensor Networks
—Developing powerful paradigms for programming sensor networks is critical to realize the full potential of sensor networks as collaborative data processing engines. In this arti...
Himanshu Gupta, Xianjin Zhu, Xiang Xu
BSN
2009
IEEE
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A Battery-Free Tag for Wireless Monitoring of Heart Sounds
—We have developed a wearable, battery-free tag that monitors heart sounds. The tag powers up by harvesting ambient RF energy, and contains a low-power integrated circuit, an ant...
Soumyajit Mandal, Lorenzo Turicchia, Rahul Sarpesh...
BSN
2009
IEEE
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Wearable Sensing for Dynamic Management of Dense Ubiquitous Media
— Most visions of ubiquitous computing anticipate a world permeated by a dense sampling of sensors, many of which will be capable of capturing, analyzing, and transmitting person...
Mathew Laibowitz, Nan-Wei Gong, Joseph A. Paradiso
BSN
2009
IEEE
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Minimising Loss-Induced Errors in Real Time Wireless Sensing by Avoiding Data Dependency
Abstract—The use of local processing to reduce data transmission rates, and thereby power and bandwidth requirements, is common in wireless sensor networks. Achieving the minimum...
A. D. Young, M. J. Ling