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CCCG
2010
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Determining the robustness of sensor barriers
Various notions of coverage provided by wireless sensor networks have attracted considerable attention over the past few years. In general, coverage can be expressed geometrically...
David G. Kirkpatrick
WIOPT
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Minimizing transmission energy in sensor networks via trajectory control
—Energy optimization is a significant component of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) design. In this paper we consider transmission energy optimization in WSNs where messages are co...
Delia Ciullo, Guner D. Celik, Eytan Modiano
WIOPT
2010
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Analysis and design of message ferry routes in sensor networks using polling models
—We consider a Ferry based Wireless Local Area Network (FWLAN), in which information is forwarded from a base station to sensors, or gathered from sensors to a base station using...
Veeraruna Kavitha, Eitan Altman
WINET
2010
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Tree-based object tracking without mobility statistics in wireless sensor networks
Object tracking in wireless sensor networks is to track mobile objects by scattered sensors. These sensors are typically organized into a tree to deliver report messages upon dete...
Li-Hsing Yen, Bang Ye Wu, Chia-Cheng Yang
VTC
2010
IEEE
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Randomized Robot-Assisted Relocation of Sensors for Coverage Repair in Wireless Sensor Networks
—In wireless sensor networks (WSN), stochastic node dropping and unpredictable node failure greatly impair coverage, creating sensing holes, while locally redundant sensors exist...
Greg Fletcher, Xu Li, Amiya Nayak, Ivan Stojmenovi...
TON
2010
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Deploying sensor networks with guaranteed fault tolerance
—We consider the problem of deploying or repairing a sensor network to guarantee a specified level of multi-path connectivity (k-connectivity) between all nodes. Such a guarante...
Jonathan Bredin, Erik D. Demaine, Mohammad Taghi H...
TON
2010
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Coverage-time optimization for clustered wireless sensor networks: a power-balancing approach
—In this paper, we investigate the maximization of the coverage time for a clustered wireless sensor network (WSN) by optimal balancing of power consumption among cluster heads (...
Tao Shu, Marwan Krunz
TMC
2010
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Efficient Coverage Maintenance Based on Probabilistic Distributed Detection
—Many wireless sensor networks require sufficient sensing coverage over long periods of time. To conserve energy, a coverage maintenance protocol achieves desired coverage by act...
Guoliang Xing, Xiangmao Chang, Chenyang Lu, Jianpi...
TMC
2010
155views more  TMC 2010»
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Maximizing the Lifetime of a Barrier of Wireless Sensors
—To make a network last beyond the lifetime of an individual sensor, redundant sensors must be deployed. What sleep-wakeup schedule can then be used for individual sensors so tha...
Santosh Kumar, Ten-Hwang Lai, Marc E. Posner, Pras...
TMC
2010
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Handling Mobility in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
— In Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs), the collaborative operation of sensors enables the distributed sensing of a physical phenomenon, while actors collect and process...
Tommaso Melodia, Dario Pompili, Ian F. Akyildiz