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Debt Maturity Without Commitment
December 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
The author analyzes how lack of commitment affects the maturity structure of sovereign debt. Governments balance benefits of default induced redistribution and costs due to income losses in the...
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Inquiry-Based Bluetooth Parameters for Indoor Localisation - An Experimental Study
May 16, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The ability to locate people in an indoor environment is attractive due to the many opportunities it offers to businesses and institutions, including emergency services. Although research in this...
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Operational Support of Wireless Mesh Networks Deployed for Extending Network Connectivity
April 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have shown high potential to extend the coverage of high bandwidth infrastructure networks. The authors propose a deployment of a WMN for the needs of higher...
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Towards Virtual Mobility Support in a Federated Testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks
March 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The authors present a design that accommodates 'Virtual mobility' in a wireless sensor network testbed. Virtually-mobile nodes can be physical, simulated or emulated, and virtual mobility for all...
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Connecting Remote Sites to the Wired Backbone by Wireless Mesh Access Networks
February 2, 2010, 12:00am PST
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) operating in the 5 GHz band (IEEE 802.11 a/h) offer a great opportunity to function as wireless access networks. Remote sites that lack direct access to a wired/fibre...
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Backbone MAC for Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks
July 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose a routing backbone construction mechanism that exploits and uses the synchronization messages exchanged by synchronized contention-based MAC protocols. Due to...
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Supporting Real-Time Communication in Wireless Mesh Networks
October 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Wireless mesh networks are a key technology for providing wireless broadband access to communities and rural development areas, as they do not require any expensive wired backbone. They offer...
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Experimental Evaluation of Multi-Path Routing in a Wireless Mesh Network Inside a Building
January 15, 2009, 12:00am PST
Multi-path routing can provide robustness and load balancing to communication in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). The authors present a Linux implementation of an existing multi-path routing scheme...
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Distributed Event Tracking and Classification in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper a Distributed Event Localization, Tracking, and classification frAmework (DELTA) is presented. An event is observed and tracked by dynamically established groups. Relevant sensor...
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Mobile Robot Indoor Localization Using Artificial Neural Networks and Wireless Networks
April 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Accurate position information of an agent (i.e. robot, animal, or people) is a requirement to accomplish several tasks. Some sensors like GPS provide global position estimation but it is...
Provided by University of Bern
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OMNeT++ Based Opportunistic Routing Protocols Simulation: A Framework
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes a framework for simulating opportunistic routing protocols in the INETMANET framework of OMNeT++. The proposed modules adopt an abstraction of the generic functions of the...
Provided by University of Bern
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An Evaluation of Compression Schemes for Wireless Networks
August 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Data gathering, either for event recognition or for monitoring applications is the primary intention for sensor network deployments. In many cases, data is acquired periodically and autonomously,...
Provided by University of Bern
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Quality of Service for Overlay Multicast in Chord
April 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes how Quality of Service (QoS) support can be introduced to Overlay Multicast in a Chord Peer-to-Peer network. The authors support the concept of QoS classes (to support various...
Provided by University of Bern
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BEAM: A Burst-Aware Energy-Efficient Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Low latency for packet delivery, high throughput, good reactivity, and energy-efficient operation are key challenges that MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have to meet. Since...
Provided by University of Bern
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Automated Deployment of AWireless Mesh Communication Infrastructure for an On-Site Video-Conferencing System (OViS)
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has already brought significant cost savings to several industries. During the construction of a building, modifications may require costly...
Provided by University of Bern
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MaxMAC: A Maximally Traffic-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Energy efficiency is a major concern in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their communication protocols. As the radio transceiver typically accounts for a major portion of a WSN...
Provided by University of Bern
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A Testbed Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds (TARWIS)
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
TARWIS is a flexible and generic Testbed Management System for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds - a reusable management solution for research and/or educational oriented research testbeds of...
Provided by University of Bern
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White Papers
An Energy-Efficient Broadcasting Scheme for Unsynchronized Wireless Sensor MAC Protocols
December 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the past couple of years, many Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control protocols for all kinds of wireless networks have been proposed. Many of them are based on Preamble Sampling (also...
Provided by University of Bern
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Management of Wireless Sensor Networks Using TCP/IP
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To allow remote management of heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the WSNs should be connected to the Internet. To overcome this problem, the authors propose a communication...
Provided by University of Bern
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Towards Energy Consumption Measurement in a Cloud Computing Wireless Testbed
November 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of the Next Generation Networks, especially the wireless broadband access technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX),...
Provided by University of Bern
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TARWIS - A Testbed Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds
August 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With research on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) becoming more and more mature in the past five years, researchers from universities all over the world have set up testbeds of wireless sensor...
Provided by University of Bern
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VirtualMesh: An Emulation Framework for Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks in OMNeT++
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have proven to be a key technology for increased network coverage of Internet infrastructures. The development process for new WMN protocols and architectures is...
Provided by University of Bern
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A Novel Position-Based and Beacon-Less Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a novel routing algorithm (called BLR: Beacon-Less Routing Algorithm) for mobile ad-hoc networks in which nodes are not required to have information about...
Provided by University of Bern
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Using First-Class Contexts to Realize Dynamic Software Updates
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Applications that need to be updated but cannot be easily restarted must be updated at run-time. The authors evaluate the reflective facilities of Smalltalk with respect to dynamic software and...
Provided by University of Bern
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Runtime Class Updates Using Modification Models
June 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic updates in object-oriented languages require high-level changes to be translated to low-level changes. For example, removing an unused instance variable from a class may shift the indices...
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The Inevitable Stability of Software Change
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Real software systems change and become more complex over time. But which parts change and which parts remain stable? Common wisdom, for example, states that in a well-designed object-oriented...
Provided by University of Bern
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Comparative Analysis of Evolving Software Systems Using the Gini Coefficient
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Software metrics offer one the promise of distilling useful information from vast amounts of software in order to track development progress, to gain insights into the nature of the software, and...
Provided by University of Bern
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On the Resilience of Classes to Change
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Software systems evolve over time incrementally and sections of code are modified. But, how much does code really change? Lehman's laws suggest that software must be continuously adapted to be...
Provided by University of Bern
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SmartGroups: Focusing on Task-Relevant Source Artifacts in IDEs
August 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Navigating large software systems, even when using a modern IDE, is difficult, since conceptually related software artifacts are distributed in a huge software space. For most software maintenance...
Provided by University of Bern
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Exploiting Dynamic Information in IDEs Eases Software Maintenance
September 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the primary tool used by developers to maintain software systems. The IDE, however, narrowly focuses on the static structure of a system, neglecting...
Provided by University of Bern
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Why and How to Substantiate the Good of Our Reverse Engineering Tools?
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Researchers and practitioners are usually eager to develop, test and experiment with new ideas and techniques to analyze software systems and/or to present results of such analyzes, for instance...
Provided by University of Bern
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Autumn Leaves: Curing the Window Plague in IDEs
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Navigating large software systems is difficult as the various artifacts are distributed in a huge space, while the relationships between different artifacts often remain hidden and obscure. As a...
Provided by University of Bern
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Senseo: Enriching Eclipse's Static Source Views With Dynamic Metrics
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Maintaining object-oriented systems that use inheritance and polymorphism is difficult, since run-time information, such as which methods are actually invoked at a call site, is not visible in the...
Provided by University of Bern
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Supporting Task-Oriented Navigation in IDEs With Configurable HeatMaps
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mainstream IDEs generally rely on the static structure of a software project to support browsing and navigation. The authors propose HeatMaps, a simple but highly configurable technique to enrich...
Provided by University of Bern
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Towards Seamless and Ubiquitous Availability of Dynamic Information in IDEs
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software developers faced with unfamiliar object-oriented code need to build a mental model of the system to understand its dynamic flow. Development environments typically provide static views of...
Provided by University of Bern
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Augmenting Static Source Views in IDEs With Dynamic Metrics
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any information about...
Provided by University of Bern
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Embedding Moose Facilities Directly in IDEs
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Moose is a powerful reverse engineering platform, but its facilities and means to analyze software are separated from the tools developers typically use to develop and maintain their software...
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Querying Runtime Information in the IDE
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Code queries focus mainly on the static structure of a system. To comprehend the dynamic behavior of a system however, a software engineer needs to be able to reason about the dynamics of this...
Provided by University of Bern
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Exploiting Runtime Information in the IDE
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Developers rely on the mechanisms provided by their IDE to browse and navigate a large software system. These mechanisms are usually based purely on a system's static source code. The static...
Provided by University of Bern
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Representing and Integrating Dynamic Collaborations in IDEs
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Static views of object-oriented source code as presented in a Development Environment (IDE) do not provide explicit representations of dynamic collaboration to describe how source artifacts...
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Whitepapers
ATOM: Adaptive Transport Over Multipaths in Wireless Mesh Networks
April 21, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors propose the ATOM (Adaptive Transport Over Multipaths) architecture to enable real-time communications in Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs). WMNs provide robust communication...
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SNOMC: An Overlay Multicast Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Using multicast communication in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is an efficient way to disseminate the same data (from one sender) to multiple receivers, e.g., transmitting code updates to a...
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Whitepapers
Service Descriptions and Linked Data for Integrating WSNs Into Enterprise IT
April 29, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the authors' ongoing work on enterprise IT integration of sensor networks based on the idea of service descriptions and applying linked data principles to them. They argue that...
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Evolving an Indoor Robotic Localization System Based on Wireless Networks
June 2, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper addresses the evolution of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to assist in the problem of indoor robotic localization. The authors investigate the design and building of an autonomous...
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Experimental Analysis of QoS Provisioning for Video Traffic in Heterogeneous Networks
May 25, 2012, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents video traffic sources specification and analyses at IP layer. The aim is to analyze network segments with video services that tend to congest the channels and find proper...
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Towards Self-Learning Radio-Based Localization Systems
June 22, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Location-awareness indoors will be an inseparable feature of mobile services/applications in future wireless networks. Its current ubiquitous availability is still obstructed by technological...
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A Smart Multi-Hop Hierarchical Routing Protocol for Efficient Video Communication Over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
March 4, 2012, 12:00am PST
For smart applications, nodes in Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks (MWSNs) have to take decisions based on sensed scalar physical measurements. A routing protocol must provide the multimedia...
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TCP Performance Optimizations for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
Since the appearance of downsized and simplified TCP/IP stacks, single nodes from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become directly accessible from the Internet with commonly used networking...
Provided by University of Bern
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White Papers
Representing and Integrating Dynamic Collaborations in IDEs
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Static views of object-oriented source code as presented in a Development Environment (IDE) do not provide explicit representations of dynamic collaboration to describe how source artifacts...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Exploiting Runtime Information in the IDE
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Developers rely on the mechanisms provided by their IDE to browse and navigate a large software system. These mechanisms are usually based purely on a system's static source code. The static...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Querying Runtime Information in the IDE
May 7, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Code queries focus mainly on the static structure of a system. To comprehend the dynamic behavior of a system however, a software engineer needs to be able to reason about the dynamics of this...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Embedding Moose Facilities Directly in IDEs
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Moose is a powerful reverse engineering platform, but its facilities and means to analyze software are separated from the tools developers typically use to develop and maintain their software...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Augmenting Static Source Views in IDEs With Dynamic Metrics
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mainstream IDEs such as Eclipse support developers in managing software projects mainly by offering static views of the source code. Such a static perspective neglects any information about...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Towards Seamless and Ubiquitous Availability of Dynamic Information in IDEs
October 28, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Software developers faced with unfamiliar object-oriented code need to build a mental model of the system to understand its dynamic flow. Development environments typically provide static views of...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Supporting Task-Oriented Navigation in IDEs With Configurable HeatMaps
June 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Mainstream IDEs generally rely on the static structure of a software project to support browsing and navigation. The authors propose HeatMaps, a simple but highly configurable technique to enrich...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Senseo: Enriching Eclipse's Static Source Views With Dynamic Metrics
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Maintaining object-oriented systems that use inheritance and polymorphism is difficult, since run-time information, such as which methods are actually invoked at a call site, is not visible in the...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Autumn Leaves: Curing the Window Plague in IDEs
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Navigating large software systems is difficult as the various artifacts are distributed in a huge space, while the relationships between different artifacts often remain hidden and obscure. As a...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Why and How to Substantiate the Good of Our Reverse Engineering Tools?
June 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Researchers and practitioners are usually eager to develop, test and experiment with new ideas and techniques to analyze software systems and/or to present results of such analyzes, for instance...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Exploiting Dynamic Information in IDEs Eases Software Maintenance
September 17, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Integrated Development Environment (IDE) is the primary tool used by developers to maintain software systems. The IDE, however, narrowly focuses on the static structure of a system, neglecting...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
SmartGroups: Focusing on Task-Relevant Source Artifacts in IDEs
August 18, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Navigating large software systems, even when using a modern IDE, is difficult, since conceptually related software artifacts are distributed in a huge software space. For most software maintenance...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
On the Resilience of Classes to Change
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Software systems evolve over time incrementally and sections of code are modified. But, how much does code really change? Lehman's laws suggest that software must be continuously adapted to be...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Comparative Analysis of Evolving Software Systems Using the Gini Coefficient
October 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Software metrics offer one the promise of distilling useful information from vast amounts of software in order to track development progress, to gain insights into the nature of the software, and...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
The Inevitable Stability of Software Change
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
Real software systems change and become more complex over time. But which parts change and which parts remain stable? Common wisdom, for example, states that in a well-designed object-oriented...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Runtime Class Updates Using Modification Models
June 8, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Dynamic updates in object-oriented languages require high-level changes to be translated to low-level changes. For example, removing an unused instance variable from a class may shift the indices...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Using First-Class Contexts to Realize Dynamic Software Updates
September 6, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Applications that need to be updated but cannot be easily restarted must be updated at run-time. The authors evaluate the reflective facilities of Smalltalk with respect to dynamic software and...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
A Novel Position-Based and Beacon-Less Routing Algorithm for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a novel routing algorithm (called BLR: Beacon-Less Routing Algorithm) for mobile ad-hoc networks in which nodes are not required to have information about...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
VirtualMesh: An Emulation Framework for Wireless Mesh and Ad Hoc Networks in OMNeT++
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have proven to be a key technology for increased network coverage of Internet infrastructures. The development process for new WMN protocols and architectures is...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
TARWIS - A Testbed Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds
August 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
With research on Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) becoming more and more mature in the past five years, researchers from universities all over the world have set up testbeds of wireless sensor...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Towards Energy Consumption Measurement in a Cloud Computing Wireless Testbed
November 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of the Next Generation Networks, especially the wireless broadband access technologies such as Long Term Evolution (LTE) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX),...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Management of Wireless Sensor Networks Using TCP/IP
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
To allow remote management of heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the WSNs should be connected to the Internet. To overcome this problem, the authors propose a communication...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
An Energy-Efficient Broadcasting Scheme for Unsynchronized Wireless Sensor MAC Protocols
December 7, 2009, 12:00am PST
In the past couple of years, many Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control protocols for all kinds of wireless networks have been proposed. Many of them are based on Preamble Sampling (also...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
A Testbed Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds (TARWIS)
January 12, 2010, 12:00am PST
TARWIS is a flexible and generic Testbed Management System for Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds - a reusable management solution for research and/or educational oriented research testbeds of...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
MaxMAC: A Maximally Traffic-Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
December 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Energy efficiency is a major concern in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and their communication protocols. As the radio transceiver typically accounts for a major portion of a WSN...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Automated Deployment of AWireless Mesh Communication Infrastructure for an On-Site Video-Conferencing System (OViS)
May 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has already brought significant cost savings to several industries. During the construction of a building, modifications may require costly...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
BEAM: A Burst-Aware Energy-Efficient Adaptive MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
April 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Low latency for packet delivery, high throughput, good reactivity, and energy-efficient operation are key challenges that MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have to meet. Since...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Quality of Service for Overlay Multicast in Chord
April 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes how Quality of Service (QoS) support can be introduced to Overlay Multicast in a Chord Peer-to-Peer network. The authors support the concept of QoS classes (to support various...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
An Evaluation of Compression Schemes for Wireless Networks
August 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Data gathering, either for event recognition or for monitoring applications is the primary intention for sensor network deployments. In many cases, data is acquired periodically and autonomously,...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
OMNeT++ Based Opportunistic Routing Protocols Simulation: A Framework
May 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper describes a framework for simulating opportunistic routing protocols in the INETMANET framework of OMNeT++. The proposed modules adopt an abstraction of the generic functions of the...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Mobile Robot Indoor Localization Using Artificial Neural Networks and Wireless Networks
April 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Accurate position information of an agent (i.e. robot, animal, or people) is a requirement to accomplish several tasks. Some sensors like GPS provide global position estimation but it is...
Provided by University of Bern
-
White Papers
Distributed Event Tracking and Classification in Wireless Sensor Networks
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this paper a Distributed Event Localization, Tracking, and classification frAmework (DELTA) is presented. An event is observed and tracked by dynamically established groups. Relevant sensor...
Provided by University of Bern
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