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A Cooperative Message Authentication Protocol in VANETs
November 21, 2012, 12:00am PST
Safety provision is a crucial application for the Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANETs). In the VANETs, vehicles periodically broadcast their geographic information. Therefore, collisions can be...
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Throughput Optimizing Localized Link Scheduling for Multihop Wireless Networks Under Physical Interference Model
January 24, 2013, 12:00am PST
The authors study throughput-optimum localized link scheduling in wireless networks. The majority of results on link scheduling assume binary interference models that simplify interference...
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Optimizing Large Data Transfers Over 100Gbps Wide Area Networks
March 14, 2013, 12:00am PDT
The Advanced Networking Initiative (ANI) project from the Energy Services Network provides a 100 Gbps testbed, which offers the opportunity for evaluating applications and middleware used by...
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Fast and Scalable Secret Key Generation Exploiting Channel Phase Randomness in Wireless Networks
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recently, there has been great interest in physical layer security techniques that exploit the randomness of wireless channels for securely extracting cryptographic keys. Several interesting...
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TODA: Truthful Online Double Auction for Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks
January 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
The spectrum usage by a secondary user often happens in a certain geographical region and in a certain time interval, and the requests often come in an online fashion. Considering the selfish...
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Approximation Algorithms for Multipath Setup
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
It is desirable to allow packets with the same source and destination to take more than one possible path. This facility can be used to ease congestion and overcome node failures. One approach...
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Multi-Commodity Network Flows Over Multipaths With Bounded Buffers
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the issue of designing multipath routing algorithms. Multi-path routing has the potential of improving the throughput but requires buffers at the destination....
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Multipath Network Flows: Bounded Buffers and Jitter
May 5, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the issue of designing multipath routing algorithms. Multi-path routing has the potential of improving the throughput but requires buffers at the destination....
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Channel-Aware Detection of Gray Hole Attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks
March 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Gray hole attacks (a.k.a selective forwarding attacks) are a special case of Denial of Service (DoS) attack, where a misbehaving mesh router just forwards a subset of the packets it receives but...
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Achieving Distributed Buffering in Multi-Path Routing Using Fair Allocation
April 5, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Traditional network routing algorithms send data from the source to destination along a single path. The selected path may experience congestion due to other traffic, thereby reducing throughput....
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Extracting More Capacity From Multi-Channel Multi-Radio Wireless Networks by Exploiting Power
March 25, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Transmission power plays a crucial role in the design and performance of wireless networks. The issue is therefore complex since an increase in transmission power implies that a high quality...
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A Game Theoretic Approach to Gray Hole Attacks in Wireless Mesh Networks
June 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are multi-hop networks in which the mesh clients rely on static mesh routers (or directly via other mesh clients) to relay data from one point to another in a...
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Minimum-Latency Schedulings for Group Communications in Multi-Channel Multihop Wireless Networks
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper is motivated by exploring the impact of the number of channels on the achievable communication latency for a specific communication task. The authors focus on how to utilize the...
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TOFU: Semi-Truthful Online Frequency Allocation Mechanism for Wireless Networks
August 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In wireless networks, the authors need to allocate spectrum efficiently. One challenge is that the spectrum usage requests often come in an online fashion. The second challenge is that the...
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General Capacity Scaling of Wireless Networks
January 10, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors focus on the issue of capacity scaling laws for wireless networks that is initiated by Gupta and Kumar. Most of the existing results differ from each other because of the diversity of...
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Delay-Bounded Adaptive UFH-Based Anti-Jamming Wireless Communication
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Anti-jamming communication without pre-shared secrets has gained increasing research interest recently and is commonly tackled by utilizing the technique of Uncoordinated Frequency Hopping (UFH)....
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iLight: Indoor Device-Free Passive Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks
December 28, 2010, 12:00am PST
Target tracking is a main application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), and has been studied widely. In this paper, the authors study indoor passive tracking problem using WSNs, in which they...
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Approximate Capacity Subregions of Uniform Multihop Wireless Networks
December 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The capacity region of multihop wireless network is involved in many capacity optimization problems. However, the membership of the capacity region is NP-complete in general, and hence the direct...
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Multi-Dimensional Conflict Graph Based Computing for Optimal Capacity in MR-MC Wireless Networks
November 26, 2009, 12:00am PST
Optimal capacity analysis in multi-radio multichannel wireless networks by nature incurs the formulation of a mixed integer programming, which is NP-hard in general. The current state of the art...
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A Generic Framework for Throughput-Optimal Control in MR-MC Wireless Networks
August 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors study the throughput-optimal control in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel (MR-MC) wireless networks, which is an open challenging research issue due to the coupled link...
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Efficient Data Aggregation in Multi-Hop WSNs
July 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have drawn considerable amount of research interests for their omnipresent applications such as environmental monitoring, spatial exploration and battlefield...
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SPA: Almost Optimal Sequential Channel Sensing, Probing, Accessing in Cognitive Radio Networks
October 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors address the spectrum utilization problem in Cognitive Radio (CR) networks, in which a CR can only utilize spectrum opportunities when the channel is idle. One challenge...
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Opportunities and Challenges in Running Scientific Workflows on the Cloud
August 3, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is gaining tremendous momentum in both academia and industry. The application of Cloud computing, however, has mostly focused on Web applications and business applications; while...
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ActSee: Activity-Aware Radio Duty Cycling for Sensor Networks in Smart Environments
April 28, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present ActSee, an activity-aware radio duty cycling protocol that utilizes the learned event activity pattern information to intelligently adjust radio duty cycles in...
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Distributed Topology Control for Efficient OSPF Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper studies distributed topology control algorithms to support the efficient Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) link state routing in multi-hop wireless networks. It is highly desirable to...
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Reliability-Aware Scalability Models for High Performance Computing
August 7, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Scalability models are powerful analytical tools for evaluating and predicting the performance of parallel applications. Unfortunately, existing scalability models do not quantify failure impact...
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A Fast Restart Mechanism for Checkpoint/Recovery Protocols in Networked Environments
May 12, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Checkpoint/recovery has been studied extensively, and various optimization techniques have been presented for its improvement. Regardless of the considerable research efforts, little work has been...
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Enhancing Application Robustness Through Adaptive Fault Tolerance
May 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
As the scale of High Performance Computing (HPC) continues to grow, application fault resilience becomes crucial. To address this problem, the authors are working on the design of an adaptive...
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Fault-Driven Re-Scheduling for Improving System-Level Fault Resilience
October 30, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The productivity of HPC system is determined not only by their performance, but also by their reliability. The conventional method to limit the impact of failures is check-pointing. However,...
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MaxOPP: A Novel Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Mesh Networks
May 6, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Opportunistic Routing is emerging as a promising paradigm to mitigate performance degradation in wireless multi-hop networks due to lossy links and varying channel conditions. Opportunistic...
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Performance Modelling of Opportunistic Forwarding With Imprecise Knowledge
March 27, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Mobility-assisted networking is becoming very popular as a mean of delivering messages in disconnected or very dynamic networks, such as opportunistic networks. Despite the rapid growth in the...
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Link Scheduling for Throughput Maximization in Multihop Wireless Networks Under Physical Interference
August 4, 2012, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider the problem of link scheduling for throughput maximization in multi-hop wireless networks. Majority of previous methods for this problem are still restricted to graph-based...
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Rejecting the Attack: Source Authentication for Wi-Fi Management Frames Using CSI Information
August 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Comparing to well protected data frames, Wi-Fi Management Frames (MFs) are extremely vulnerable to various attacks. Since MFs are transmitted without encryption, attackers can forge them easily....
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Network Agile Preference-Based Prefetching for Mobile Devices
July 31, 2012, 12:00am PDT
For mobile devices, communication via cellular networks consumes more energy, and has a lower data rate than Wi-Fi networks, and suffers an expensive limited data plan. However the Wi-Fi network...
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Opportunities and Challenges for Running Scientific Workflows on the Cloud
August 2, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is gaining tremendous momentum in both academia and industry. The application of Cloud computing, however, has mostly focused on Web applications and business applications; while...
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Approximation Algorithms for Multipath Setup
December 19, 2007, 12:00am PST
It is desirable to allow packets with the same source and destination to take more than one possible path. This facility can be used to ease congestion and overcome node failures. One approach...
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TODA: Truthful Online Double Auction for Spectrum Allocation in Wireless Networks
January 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
The spectrum usage by a secondary user often happens in a certain geographical region and in a certain time interval, and the requests often come in an online fashion. Considering the selfish...
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Fast and Scalable Secret Key Generation Exploiting Channel Phase Randomness in Wireless Networks
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
Recently, there has been great interest in physical layer security techniques that exploit the randomness of wireless channels for securely extracting cryptographic keys. Several interesting...
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Effective Multi-User Broadcast Authentication in Wireless Sensor Networks
February 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
Broadcast authentication is a critical security service in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as it allows the mobile users of WSNs to broadcast messages to multiple sensor nodes in a secure way....
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A UML-Based Metric Approach to Estimate Total Effort Using Software Project Designs
May 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors have developed three distinct UML approaches to calculate effort corresponding to the early, mid, and late stages of design using Carlson's UML Design Methodology. In early-design, the...
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Flash-Based Audio and Video Communication in the Cloud
June 30, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Internet telephony and multimedia communication protocols have matured over the last fifteen years. Recently, the web is evolving as a popular platform for everything the authors do on the...
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Dynamic Coherent Acceptability Indices And Their Applications To Finance
May 23, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a theoretical framework for studying coherent acceptability indices in a dynamic setup. They study dynamic coherent acceptability indices and dynamic coherent...
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Toward an Architecture of a Component-Based System Supporting Separation of Non-Functional Concerns
September 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The promises of component-based technology can only be fully realized when the system contains in its design a necessary level of separation of concerns. The authors propose to focus on the...
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Group Device Pairing Based Secure Sensor Association and Key Management for Body Area Networks
December 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Body Area Networks (BAN) is a key enabling technology in E-healthcare such as remote health monitoring. An important security issue during bootstrap phase of the BAN is to securely associate a...
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Privacy-Preserving Multi-Keyword Ranked Search Over Encrypted Cloud Data
April 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With the advent of cloud computing, data owners are motivated to outsource their complex data management systems from local sites to the commercial public cloud for great flexibility and economic...
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Secure Optimization Computation Outsourcing in Cloud Computing: A Case Study of Linear Programming
April 9, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing enables an economically promising paradigm of computation outsourcing. However, how to protect customers' confidential data processed and generated during the computation is...
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Secure Ranked Keyword Search Over Encrypted Cloud Data
March 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, sensitive information are being increasingly centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data has to be encrypted before...
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A2BE: Accountable Attribute-Based Encryption for Abuse Free Access Control
April 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As a recently proposed public key primitive, Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) (including Ciphertext-Policy ABE (CP-ABE) and Key-Policy ABE (KP-ABE)) is a highly promising tool for secure...
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Enhancing Attribute-Based Encryption With Attribute Hierarchy
June 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) has been envisioned as a promising cryptographic primitive for realizing secure and flexible access control. However, ABE is being criticized for its high scheme...
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Severity Prediction of Drought in a Large Geographical Area Using Distributed Wireless Sensor Networks
March 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the severity prediction of drought through the implementation of modern sensor networks is discussed. The authors describe how to design a drought prediction system using wireless...
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Enabling Public Verifiability and Data Dynamics for Storage Security in Cloud Computing
December 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud Computing has been envisioned as the next-generation architecture of IT Enterprise. It moves the application software and databases to the centralized large data centers, where the...
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Enabling Efficient Fuzzy Keyword Search Over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, more and more sensitive information are being centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data usually have to be encrypted...
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Multicast Capacity of Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
March 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
In many applications, e.g., wireless sensor networks, the authors often need estimate the achievable throughput of the deployed network. The main purpose of this paper is to study the asymptotic...
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Achieving Secure, Scalable, and Fine-Grained Data Access Control in Cloud Computing
December 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. As promising as it is, this paradigm also brings...
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Fuzzy Keyword Search Over Encrypted Data in Cloud Computing
December 21, 2009, 12:00am PST
As Cloud Computing becomes prevalent, more and more sensitive information are being centralized into the cloud. For the protection of data privacy, sensitive data usually have to be encrypted...
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Securing Personal Health Records in Cloud Computing: Patient-Centric and Fine-Grained Data Access Control in Multi-Owner Settings
August 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Online Personal Health Record (PHR) enables patients to manage their own medical records in a centralized way, which greatly facilitates the storage, access and sharing of personal health data....
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Towards Secure Link Quality Measurement in Multihop Wireless Networks
August 14, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Link Quality Measurement (LQM), i.e. Packet Reception Ratio (PRR) measurement, is becoming an indispensable component in multihop wireless networks. However, in all the existing LQM mechanisms, a...
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Capacity Region of a Wireless Mesh Backhaul Network Over the CSMA/CA MAC
December 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper studies the maximum throughput that can be supported by a given wireless mesh backhaul network, over a practical CSMA/CA Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. This paper resorts to the...
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Using a Relational Database for Scalable XML Search
June 3, 2007, 12:00am PDT
XML is a flexible and powerful tool that enables information and security sharing in heterogeneous environments. Scalable technologies are needed to effectively manage the growing volumes of XML...
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Stochastic Security in Wireless Mesh Networks Via Saddle Routing Policy
June 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The security problem in multihop wireless networks is more severe than that in wired networks since its transmission media is the unprotected air. In this paper, authors show how to increase the...
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Microwave Oven Signal Interference Mitigation for Wi-Fi Communication Systems
September 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The MicroWave Oven (MWO) is a popular appliance that acts as an unintentional interferer for 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.11 WI-Fi communication signals. An interference mitigation technique is developed that...
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Network Survivability Simulation of a Commercially Deployed Dynamic Routing System Protocol
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
With the ever-increasing demands on server applications, many new server services are distributed in nature. Authors evaluated one hundred deployed systems and found that over a one-year period,...
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Secure and Practical Outsourcing of Linear Programming in Cloud Computing
July 28, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Cloud Computing has great potential of providing robust computational power to the society at reduced cost. It enables customers with limited computational resources to outsource their large...
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Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing for Data Storage Security in Cloud Computing
February 10, 2010, 12:00am PST
Cloud computing is the long dreamed vision of computing as a utility, where users can remotely store their data into the cloud so as to enjoy the on-demand high quality applications and services...
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Storage and Compute Resource Management Via DYRE, 3DcacheGrid, and CompuStore
August 6, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Both the industry and academia have an increase demand for good policies and mechanisms to efficiently manage large data sets and large pool of compute resources that ultimately perform...
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Efficient User Revocation for Privacy-Aware PKI
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Privacy-aware Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) can maintain user access control and yet protect user privacy, which is envisioned as a promising technique in many emerging applications. To justify...
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Spreadsheet Techniques in Physics Calculations
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
The spreadsheet is a general purpose calculation tool and has many uses in physics. In particular, it is very good for one-time data manipulation and for developing calculations which then can be...
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Privacy-Aware Attribute-Based Encryption With User Accountability
July 6, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As a new public key primitive, attribute-based encryption (ABE) is envisioned to be a promising tool for implementing fine-grained access control. To further address the concern of user access...
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Broadcast Capacity for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
March 17, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In wireless ad hoc networks, wireless nodes may cooperate in routing each others' packets. Lack of a centralized control of the functionality and possible node mobility give rise to many...
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Energy Efficient TDMA Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
Sleep scheduling is a widely used mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to reduce the energy consumption since it can save the energy wastage caused by the idle listening state. In a...
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