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INFOCOM
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A beacon-less location discovery scheme for wireless sensor networks
— In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sensor location plays a critical role in many applications. Having a GPS receiver on every sensor node is costly. In the past, a number of l...
Lei Fang, Wenliang Du, Peng Ning
ICCV
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Study of Detecting Social Interaction with Sensors in a Nursing Home Environment
Social interaction plays an important role in our daily lives. It is one of the most important indicators of physical or mental diseases of aging patients. In this paper, we presen...
Datong Chen, Jie Yang, Howard D. Wactlar
HICSS
2005
IEEE
185views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2005»
14 years 5 months ago
HEAR-SN: A New Hierarchical Energy-Aware Routing Protocol for Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks are becoming an integral part of numerous applications very quickly. Here, we present a new approach for sensor applications that requires coverage for a ...
Michael Hempel, Hamid Sharif, Prasad Raviraj
RTSS
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed Real-Time Detection and Tracking of Homogeneous Regions in Sensor Networks
In many applications we can deploy large number of sensors spanning wide geographical areas, to monitor environmental phenomena. The analysis of the data collected by such sensor ...
Sharmila Subramaniam, Vana Kalogeraki, Themis Palp...
ROBIO
2006
IEEE
103views Robotics» more  ROBIO 2006»
14 years 6 months ago
Processing of an Embedded Tactile Matrix Sensor
— A fully embedded tactile/force sensor system to be installed on the phalanges of a robot hand is presented in this paper. The sensor consists of a distributed array of analog t...
Giorgio Cannata, Marco Maggiali
LCN
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
ZONER: A ZONE-based Sensor Relocation Protocol for Mobile Sensor Networks
— In mobile sensor networks, self-deployment and relocation are two different research issues, both of which involve autonomous sensor movement. They share in most cases a common...
Xu Li, Nicola Santoro
ISCC
2006
IEEE
188views Communications» more  ISCC 2006»
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Active Learning Driven Data Acquisition for Sensor Networks
Online monitoring of a physical phenomenon over a geographical area is a popular application of sensor networks. Networks representative of this class of applications are typicall...
Anish Muttreja, Anand Raghunathan, Srivaths Ravi, ...
ISCC
2006
IEEE
127views Communications» more  ISCC 2006»
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Aggregating Distributed Sensor Data for Network Intrusion Detection
Distributed network intrusion detection systems which incorporate tens, hundreds, even thousands, of sensors are becoming increasing popular. Managing and presenting the informati...
John C. McEachen, Cheng Kah Wai, Vonda L. Olsavsky
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Relay Placement for Higher Order Connectivity in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract— Sensors typically use wireless transmitters to communicate with each other. However, sensors may be located in a way that they cannot even form a connected network (e.g...
Abhishek Kashyap, Samir Khuller, Mark A. Shayman
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Sleeping Coordination for Comprehensive Sensing Using Isotonic Regression and Domatic Partitions
— We address the problem of energy efficient sensing by adaptively coordinating the sleep schedules of sensor nodes while guaranteeing that values of sleeping nodes can be recov...
Farinaz Koushanfar, Nina Taft, Miodrag Potkonjak