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SAINT
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Managing Heterogeneous Data Flows in Wireless Sensor Networks Using a "Split Personality" Mote Platform
Remote sensing applications are increasingly making use of sensors that generate demanding data flows (e.g. digital imaging devices). This paper presents the
Danny Hughes, Mickaël Daudé, Geoff Cou...
RTSS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Fast Sensor Placement Algorithms for Fusion-Based Target Detection
Mission-critical target detection imposes stringent performance requirements for wireless sensor networks, such as high detection probabilities and low false alarm rates. Data fus...
Zhaohui Yuan, Rui Tan, Guoliang Xing, Chenyang Lu,...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
On Maintaining Sensor-Actor Connectivity in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
—In wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs), a group of sensors and actors are connected by a wireless medium to perform distributed sensing and acting tasks. Sensors usually ...
Jie Wu, Shuhui Yang, Mihaela Cardei
ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Joint Power Scheduling and Estimator Design for Sensor Networks Across Parallel Channels
—This paper addresses the joint estimator and power optimization problem for a sensor network whose mission is to estimate an unknown parameter. We assume a two-hop network where...
Lauren M. Huie, Xiang He, Aylin Yener
ICC
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Geometric Random Linear Codes in Sensor Networks
—Wireless sensor networks consist of unreliable and energy-constrained sensors connecting to each other wirelessly. As measured data may be lost due to sensor failures, maintaini...
Yunfeng Lin, Ben Liang, Baochun Li
GLOBECOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Assigning Sensors to Competing Missions
— When a sensor network is deployed in the field, it is typically required to support multiple simultaneous missions, which may start and finish at different times. Schemes tha...
Hosam Rowaihy, Matthew P. Johnson, Amotz Bar-Noy, ...
FGCN
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Object Tracking of Mobile Robot Using Moving Color and Shape Information for the Aged Walking
A mobile robot with various types of sensors via ubiquitous networks is introduced. We designed a mobile robot composed of TCP/IP network, wireless camera and several sensors in a...
Sanghoon Kim, Sangmu Lee, Seungjong Kim
COMSWARE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Tracking target using sensor networks: target detection and route activation under energy constraints
—In this paper we consider tracking a target moving in a 2D plane using a network of sensors, each of which is capable of detecting presence of the target in its vicinity and com...
Vaishali P. Sadaphal, Bijendra N. Jain
CODES
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Cache-aware optimization of BAN applications
Body-area sensor network or BAN-based health monitoring is increasingly becoming a popular alternative to traditional wired bio-monitoring techniques. However, most biomonitoring ...
Yun Liang, Lei Ju, Samarjit Chakraborty, Tulika Mi...
CISS
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Distributed computation of a sparse cover in sensor networks without location information
— In this paper, we present a distributed algorithm for detecting redundancies in a sensor network with no location information. We demonstrate how, in the absence of localizatio...
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Ali Jadbabaie