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AHSWN
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Directed Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks: Concept and Quality
In this paper, we introduce a new type of coverage for wireless sensor networks, called Directed Coverage (DCoverage). Basically, D-Coverage is the coverage provided by a sensor n...
Changqing Xu, Xiaole Bai, Lei Ding, Jin Teng, Srir...
ADHOC
2011
13 years 3 months ago
RadiaLE: A framework for designing and assessing link quality estimators in wireless sensor networks
—Stringent cost and energy constraints impose the use of low-cost and low-power radio transceivers in large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This fact, together with the ha...
Nouha Baccour, Anis Koubaa, Maissa Ben Jamâa...
PERCOM
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
Market mechanisms for Value of Information driven resource allocation in Sensor Networks
—This paper examines the possible uses of different market mechanisms for resource allocation at different levels of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) architecture. The goal is to ma...
Boleslaw K. Szymanski, S. Yousaf Shah, Sahin Cem G...
PERCOM
2011
ACM
13 years 4 months ago
A self-powered adaptive wireless sensor network for wastewater treatment plants
Efficient monitoring and control of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has become an important public issue as the cost of electricity continues to grow and the quality requiremen...
Yu Chen, Christopher M. Twigg, Omowunmi A. Sadik, ...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
RSS-based node localization in the presence of attenuating objects
Node localization is an important task in the context of wireless sensor networks. Although algorithms already exist to carry out localization using measurements of received signa...
Andrea Edelstein, Xi Chen, Yunpeng Li, Michael Rab...
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Robust distributed detection, localization, and estimation of a diffusive target in clustered wireless sensor networks
Robust operation of wireless sensor networks deployed in harsh environment is important in many application. In this paper, we develop a robust technique for distributed detection...
Sami Aldalahmeh, Mounir Ghogho
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Vulnerability of insens to denial of service attacks
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) may be deployed in hostile or inaccessible environments and are often unattended. In these conditions securing a WSN against malicious attacks is a...
Kashif Saghar, David Kendall, Ahmed Bouridane
ICASSP
2011
IEEE
13 years 4 months ago
Reaching consensus in asynchronous WSNs: Algebraic approach
Many models of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) assume a perfect synchronization along the graph of such network as a simplifying assumption. In our contribution we base our invest...
Ondrej Sluciak, Markus Rupp
TON
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Passive Diagnosis for Wireless Sensor Networks
Network diagnosis, an essential research topic for traditional networking systems, has not received much attention for wireless sensor networks. Existing sensor debugging tools li...
Yunhao Liu, Kebin Liu, Mo Li
TIT
2010
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13 years 7 months ago
Silence-based communication
We consider a power-efficient communication model for wireless sensor networks where silence is used to convey information. We study the average-case and worstcase complexities of ...
Anand K. Dhulipala, Christina Fragouli, Alon Orlit...