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Performance of a WSN in the Presence of Channel Variations and Interference
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The broadcast capacity of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is defined as the maximum rate at which the network may generate messages intended for distribution to the entire network. Broadcast...
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Linear Dispersion Codes for MIMO Channels with Limited Feedback
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose Linear Dispersion Codes (LDCs) for Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) channels with a prescribed amount of feedback. The proposed scheme selects the LDC from...
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Alternate Transmission Relaying Schemes for MIMO Wireless Networks
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Enormous gains of using multiple antennas at both the transmitter and the receiver known as Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) in wireless communication system have been predicted. Especially,...
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QoS Support Over UWB Mesh Networks
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Streaming and multimedia services are key applications in UWB-based high-rate short-range Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). In this paper, the authors study how to support the Quality of...
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Security Concept for Distributed Service Execution Environments
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a concept to securely execute services on a distributed execution environment. The execution environment (SSEE), offers interfaces in terms of Web Services (WS). Using these WS...
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Reduced-Complexity Recursive MMSE Channel Estimator for the Wireless OFDM Systems
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An accurate estimate of the Channel Frequency Response (CFR) needed for OFDM equalization can be obtained using the linear Minimum Mean Square Error (MMSE) algorithm. However, for an optimal...
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Uplink-Downlink SINR Duality via Lagrange Duality
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The uplink-downlink SINR duality theorem is key tools which simplify substantially the problem of joint design of the linear transmit and receive beam formers in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output...
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Effect of Frame Aggregation on the Throughput Performance of IEEE 802.11n
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The IEEE 802.11n standard aims at providing a data transmission rate of up to 600 Mbps. The frame aggregation techniques of IEEE 802.11n MAC layer play an important role in the enhancement of...
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Repeating or Relaying in Wireless Systems
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors investigate delay diversity in Ricean fading channels implied by repeaters as a simple form of relay. They will outline the impact in broadcast and in mobile radio...
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Towards an Architecture for Mobility Management and Resource Control
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In 4G networks, various wireless access technologies will be integrated into a heterogeneous network based on an IP core network infrastructure. Thus, numerous works focus on mobility and vertical...
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Multichannel Wormhole Switching vs. CSMA/CA for Wireless Mesh Networking
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a method for improving the performance of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) through the use of multichannel wormhole switching. Current WMNs based on contention-based Medium Access...
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A Performance Comparison of Routing Protocols for Maritime Wireless Mesh Networks
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors envisage coverage extension of the high bit rate terrestrial communication networks to the ships to reduce the cost in maritime communications. The coverage extension is achieved by...
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A Real-Time Algorithm for Long Range Signal Strength Prediction in Wireless Networks
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Prediction of rapidly time variant fading channel conditions enables adaptive data transmission in wireless systems, which in turn improves the quality of service for end users and reduces the...
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Saturated Throughput of Burst Mode PCA with Hard DRPs in WiMedia MAC
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An analytical formulation of the saturated throughput of Burst Mode Prioritized Contention Access (PCA) with Hard Distributed Reservation Protocols (DRPs) and Beacon Period (BP) in WiMedia MAC is...
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Subchannel-Division Adaptive Resource Allocation Technique for Cooperative Relay-Based MIMO/OFDM Wireless Communication Systems
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose cooperative division relay based allocation technique jointly with adaptive bit/power loading for Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output/Orthogonal Frequency Division...
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An Introduction to the Cognitive Concept as a Cost-Effective Method for Network Performance Management
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A successful journey beyond 3G towards 4G Mobile is ensured to a large extent by creating cost-effective solutions for ubiquitous converged voice and data networks. This could be achieved through...
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Optimal Voice Admission Control Performance under Soft Vertical Handoff in Loosely Coupled 3G/WLAN Networks
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Low cost WLAN networks are very likely to be loosely coupled to high cost 3G networks in order to provide the 3G subscribers with an extended WLAN capacity and the WLAN subscribers with the 3G...
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Energy-Efficient Joint Power and Rate Control via Pricing in Wireless Data Networks
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Next Generation wireless networks are evolving towards all-data system which are expected to support a variety of application services with diverse transmission rates. Meanwhile, since most of the...
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Spectral Correlation-Based Multi-Antenna Spectrum Sensing Technique
March 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To meet the challenges in sensing the spectrum in a reliable and timely manner, an approach of multi-antenna spectrum sensing based on spectral correlation property is proposed in this paper....
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Performance of WiMAX Networks Integrated in a Segment of Satellite Using Channel Reservation Mechanism
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Mobility issue and service continuity represent important challenges for next generation networks. The integration of a satellite segment within a terrestrial network (especially WiMAX) has...
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Web Optimization in Real UMTS Networks with Channel Switching Mechanisms
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Web download performance is dramatically degraded in UMTS, resulting in perceived throughputs of around 25% of the expected bandwidth even in favorable conditions. The authors analyze the main...
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Improving SC-FDMA Performance by Turbo Equalization in UTRA LTE Uplink
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Turbo equalization is known as an advanced iterative equalization and decoding technique that allows to enhance the performance of the data transmission over a frequency selective fading channel....
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Low Power Consumption Solutions for Instant Messaging on Mobile Devices
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Instant Messaging (IM) services enable real-time text and multimedia exchange and online presence awareness. Users typically log onto IM services persistently in order to discover available...
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Performance of Uplink Fractional Power Control in UTRAN LTE
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
UTRAN Long Term Evolution is currently being standardized in 3GPP with the aim of more than twice the capacity over High-Speed Packet Access. The chosen multiple access for uplink is Single...
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Analytic Evaluation of a Hybrid Broadcast-Unicast TV Offering
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Today mobile TV services in cellular spectrum are delivered over unicast radio bearers as offered by 3G technologies like WCDMA and HSDPA. Since unicast transmission does not scale very well if...
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On the Benefits of Relays in a Metropolitan Area Network
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The main motivation to deploy fixed wireless relays in a wireless communication system is to save costs while achieving a similar or better service level and coverage than with a base station only...
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Performance Evaluation of a Relay-Based 4G Network Deployment with Combined SDMA/OFDMA and Resource Partitioning
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a low-cost, low complexity deployment concept for a relay-based cellular broadband network. The concept is based on a combination of a multi-antenna OFDMA Base Station (BS) and...
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Distributed Detection in OFDM Based Ad Hoc Overlay Systems
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Overlay systems are a feasible approach to increase the efficiency of spectrum use. An independent Secondary User (SU) system operates in the same frequency band as a Primary User (PU) system. In...
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QoS Oriented Time and Frequency Domain Packet Schedulers for The UTRAN Long Term Evolution
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) downlink general packet scheduling methods for throughput fairness control among users. The investigation...
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A Novel Approach for Realistic Emulation of Vehicle-2-X Communication Applications
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
New applications in future intelligent transportation systems are to enhance both safety and traffic efficiency. Wireless vehicular communication is to provide the basis for the new Vehicle-2-X...
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Boosting Video Capacity of IEEE 802.11n Through Multiple Receiver Frame Aggregation
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The technology based on the IEEE 802.11 standard has been hugely successful, and is evolving towards even higher speeds and richer features. In particular, the 802.11n amendment of the standard...
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Dynamic Access Network Selection with QoS Parameters Estimation: A Step Closer to ABC
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Always Best Connected (ABC) services allow multimode mobile terminals to stay connected to the best available networks, at anytime according to user preferences. One of the key aspects in...
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Extending Enterprise Architecture with Mobility
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper discusses the extension of the Enterprise Architecture (EA) with mobile technologies. The mobile technologies provide the modern business with benefits of location and time independence...
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Resource Allocation Techniques for OFDMA-Based Decode-and-Forward Relaying Networks
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors focus on the design of efficient resource allocation algorithms for a multihop cellular network, with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Accesses (OFDMA) as downlink...
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A Wireless Mesh Network-Based Platform for ITS
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Although efficient and safe transportation of people and goods is paramount transportation problems continue to soar. Traffic congestions are of the most visible of transportation problems in...
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Theoretical Capacity and Outage Rate of OFDMA Cellular System with Fractional Frequency Reuse
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Employing Fractional Frequency Reuse (FFR) in OFDMA cellular systems is attracting a lot of attention since it offers large capacity and one-cell frequency reuse. However its performance under...
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Load Matrix Optimization in Mobile Cellular Networks
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Future mobile networks providing multitude of services with large range of QoS requirements has made the importance of Radio Resource Management (RRM) ever more significant. Traditional scheduling...
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VoIP performance in "MeshBed" - A Wireless Mesh Networks Testbed
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a WLAN based next generation wireless mesh testbed, called "MeshBed". The aim of this testbed is to investigate carrier-grade mesh network aspects from network operator's point...
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Uplink VoIP Performance in E-UTRAN TDD Mode
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Long Term Evolution (LTE) of 3GPP radio-access technology aims to develop a framework towards a high-data-rate, low-latency and packet-optimized radio access technology: Evolved Universal...
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The Architecture of Cross-Campus WLAN Roaming Environment in Taiwan
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There are totally 163 colleges and universities in Taiwan, 90% of them have established their campus WLAN environment and 61% of them have joined the cross-campus WLAN roaming environment under...
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Efficient Tracking of Moving Targets by Passively Handling Traces in Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors study the important problem of tracking moving targets in wireless sensor networks. They try to overcome the limitations of standard state of the art tracking methods based on...
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Asymptotic Performance of Distributed Detection in Clustered Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors consider a multi-hop clustered wireless sensor network in which sensor nodes use their observations of the environment to make local hard (0/1) decisions about whether an event has...
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Cross-Layer Optimization for Energy-Timeliness Tradeoff in TDMA Based Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Energy efficiency is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks. Energy consumption can be saved by using a lower transmission power, but this also increases the channel error rate and the...
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Optimal Cluster Number Determination for Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A method to determine the optimal clusterhead number in a clustered wireless sensor network is proposed to improve the energy efficiency of clustering schemes. The wireless sensor network is...
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Using Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks: An Energy-Efficient and Flexible Approach
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), hierarchical network structures have the advantage of providing scalable and resource efficient solutions. Thus, finding an efficient way to generate clusters...
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A Cross-Layer Solution for Ultra wideband Based Wireless Video Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A cross-layer communication protocol called VSN-Module is introduced for Wireless Video Sensor Networks based on UltraWideBand (UWB) radio technology at the physical layer. The core of the...
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Spatially Limited Contention for Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With rapid developments in the community mesh networks and wireless sensor networks research, the need for more efficient channel access techniques for multi-hop wireless networks has become...
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Network Coding in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs With an Enhanced Channel Access Scheme
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a set of simple extensions to the IEEE 802.11 MAC that allow the efficient realization of wireless network coding. The main characteristic of the proposed...
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Stability of Multiple Receiving Nodes Slotted ALOHA for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In wireless Ad Hoc and sensor networks, communication may be achieved without a central entity (base station) and nodes communicate with each other in a half-duplex manner. In those kinds of...
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Energy-Aware Dynamic Topology Control Algorithm for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Topology control via per-node transmission power adjustment has been shown effective in extending network lifetime. However, most of existing algorithms construct static topologies which fail to...
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Performance Analysis for Optimal Hybrid Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Sink's vicinity is a hotspot area in a wireless sensor network, and has a significant impact on the normal operation and network performance of the entire network. A hybrid MAC protocol makes use...
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Optimal Rate Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks With Guaranteed Lifetime
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Channel capacity and node energy represent resources and constraints in designing efficient routing schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). To delivery more data, a higher rate is desirable,...
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DPRMM: A Novel Coverage-Invariant Mobility Model for Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Existing mobility models for wireless sensor networks generally do not preserve a uniform scattering of the sensor nodes within the monitored area. This paper proposes a coverage-preserving random...
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Modeling Mobility-Assisted Data Collection in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Exploiting mobility to enhance the performance of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in terms of connectivity, coverage, and lifetime elongation, has recently been the focus of several research...
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Optimal Target Detection With Localized Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Detecting the presence/absence of an object in a region of interest is one of the important applications for sensor networks. A considerable amount of work has been seen in the literature for...
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Distortion Analysis for Real-Time Reconstruction of Correlated Data Field in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper deals with the analysis of distortion introduced in the real time reconstruction of a spatio-temporally correlated field by a sink node. The field is measured by a randomly deployed...
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On Proportional Fair Scheduling in Multi-Antenna Wireless Mesh Networks-Theoretical Analysis
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Proportional Fair Scheduling (PFS) provides good balance between throughput and fairness via multi-user diversity and game-theoretic equilibrium. Very little analytical work exists on...
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Channel Modeling of Wireless Networks in Tunnels
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The propagation characteristics of ElectroMagnetic (EM) waves in tunnels are significantly different from those in terrestrial environment. However, the current tunnel channel models cannot...
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Bilateral Shapley Value Based Cooperative Gateway Selection in Congested Wireless Mesh Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs), the achievable throughput of a mesh client to a GateWay (GW) is limited by the minimum link capacity of the intermediate nodes. In instances when the intermediate...
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Pairing-Based Secure Timing Synchronization for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Secure time synchronization is one of the key concerns for some sophisticated sensor network applications. Most existing time synchronization protocols are affected by almost all attacks. In this...
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Epidemic Propagation in Overlaid Wireless Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
With the emergence of computer worms that can spread over air interfaces, wireless ad hoc and sensor networks can be vulnerable to node compromises even if the deployed network is not connected to...
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A Combinatorial Approach for Key-Distribution in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Sensor nodes are usually deployed in adversarial environments in which they are subject to compromise and revelation of critical information rendering the entire network useless. Therefore, secure...
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Weaving a Proper Net to Catch Large Objects
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless sensor networks are usually over-engineered, i.e., more than required sensors are deployed and remain active in order to cover each point in the monitored field with a high probability at...
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A New Security Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is ad-hoc mobile networks in which the sensors have limited resources and communication capabilities. Secure communications in some wireless sensor networks are...
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An Energy Efficient Hybrid Medium Access Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks With Quality of Service Guarantees
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors present a new MAC layer protocol for wireless sensor networks that reduces energy consumption and provides Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees through the use of service...
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Optimizing Video Transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes an efficient packet scheduling scheme for minimizing perceived video distortion and power consumption over multipath wireless multimedia sensor networks. The proposed...
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A Wireless Array Based Cooperative Sensing Model in Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), the performance and effectiveness of the network is highly dependant on its geographical coverage. However, in many applications the actual coverage cannot be...
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Lifetime Analysis for Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The nodes of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have the dual function of gathering information and relaying it to a central collection point, the sink. For the latter function the key is...
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Fuzzy Algorithms for Maximum Lifetime Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The authors address the maximum lifetime routing problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and propose two online routing algorithms based on fuzzy logic, namely fuzzy maximum lifetime algorithm...
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Routing in Three Dimensional Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A sensor network is a promising technology that can be used to avoid disasters such as fire, storm, etc. This technology needs to be improved in terms of several issues. In this paper, the authors...
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Oriented Void Avoidance Scheme for Real-Time Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To avoid the negative impact of void areas on real-time routing efficiency, the authors propose in this paper an oriented void avoidance scheme for wireless sensor networks. To select the...
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Designing an Application-Aware Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Routing protocols that can facilitate application-specific service guarantee in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) constitute one of the key design objectives of current WSN research. Since,...
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A Load-Balanced Guiding Navigation Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
October 29, 2008, 12:00am PDT
One of the major applications of wireless sensor networks is guiding navigation service with its goal to assist moving objects in leaving a hazardous region safely and quickly. In this paper, the...
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Random Access Compressed Sensing for Energy-Efficient Underwater Sensor Networks
September 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Inspired by the theory of compressed sensing and employing random channel access, the authors propose a distributed energy-efficient sensor network scheme denoted by Random Access Compressed...
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Co-Channel Interference Mitigation Capability of Fixed Relays Connected by Optical Fibre
July 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors consider the co-channel interference mitigation capability of fixed relay aided wireless systems, where the relays are linked to the base station using realistic...
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Effects of Practical Impairments on Cooperative Distributed Antennas Combined With Fractional Frequency Reuse
March 12, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Cooperative Multiple Point (CoMP) transmission aided Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS) are proposed for increasing the received Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise-Ratio (SINR) in the cell-edge area...
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Imperfect Digital Fibre Optic Link Based Cooperative Distributed Antennas With Fractional Frequency Reuse in Multicell Multiuser Networks
September 26, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The achievable throughput of the entire cellular area is investigated, when employing fractional frequency reuse techniques in conjunction with realistically modelled imperfect optical fibre aided...
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Digital RoF Aided Cooperative Distributed Antennas with FFR in Multicell Multiuser Networks
July 27, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The classic Unity Frequency Reuse (UFR) pattern may be applied by wireless systems in order to maximize the attainable area spectral efficiency at the cost of increasing the co-channel...
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End-to-End Differentiation of Congestion and Wireless Losses
January 1, 2012, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors explore end-to-end Loss Differentiation Algorithms (LDAs) for use with congestion-sensitive video transport protocols for networks with either backbone or last-hop...
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An Overview of MIMO-Oriented Channel Access in Wireless Networks
January 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
The integration of MIMO technology in WLANs has recently been the focus of extensive research. The main objectives of this technology are to improve channel reuse and/or reduce energy consumption....
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