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Intra-Car Wireless Sensor Networks Using RFID: Opportunities and Challenges
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Building a wireless sensor network in a car has important benefits in terms of cost reduction, having an open architecture, and fuel efficiency. One option for implementing such an intra-car...
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QoMOR: A QoS-Aware MAC Protocol Using Optimal Retransmission for Wireless Intra-Vehicular Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The paper proposes a MAC layer protocol called Qo-MOR (QoS-aware MAC protocol using Optimal Retransmission) that is designed to provide QoS in a decentralized network with multiple sensor (source)...
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Limit Theorems for Degree of Coverage and Lifetime in Large Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors investigate the fundamental limits of sensor network lifetime that any algorithm can achieve. In the settings, n nodes are deployed as a Poisson point process with...
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Towards Energy-Optimal and Reliable Data Collection Via Collision-Free Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors consider the problem of supervision or periodic data collection for stationary wireless sensor networks and present a practical, energy-efficient, and reliable solution....
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Cross-Layer Quality of Service Support for UWB Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are networks of wirelessly interconnected devices that allow retrieving video and audio streams, still images, and scalar sensor data. WMSN require the...
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A Singlehop Collaborative Feedback Primitive for Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
To achieve scalability, energy-efficiency, and timeliness, wireless sensor network deployments increasingly employ in-network processing. In this paper, the authors identify single hop feedback...
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SVATS: A Sensor-Network-Based Vehicle Anti-Theft System
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Today vehicle theft rate is very high, thus tracking/ alarming systems are being deployed with an increasingly popularity. These systems however bear some limitations such as high cost, high...
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A Decomposition Method for Transmission Scheduling in Multi-Channel Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors consider wireless sensor networks with multiple frequency channels, multiple gateways and multiple classes of traffic carrying data generated by different sensory inputs. The objective...
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Scalable Localization With Mobility Prediction for Underwater Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Due to adverse aqueous environments, non-negligible node mobility and large network scale, localization for large-scale mobile underwater sensor networks is very challenging. In this paper, by...
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Utility-Driven Spatiotemporal Sampling Using Mobile Sensors
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Many real-world applications for sensor networks require event sampling with sufficient resolution over both spatial and temporal dimensions. When the deployed nodes are insufficient to fully...
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Attack-Tolerant Time-Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Achieving secure time-synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a challenging, but very important problem that has not yet been addressed effectively. This paper proposes an...
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Verifiable Privacy-Preserving Range Query in Two-Tiered Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors consider a sensor network that is not fully trusted and ask the question how they preserve privacy for the collected data and how they verify the data reply from the network. The...
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Towards Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
For sensor networks deployed to monitor and report real events, event source anonymity is an attractive and critical security property, which unfortunately is also very difficult and expensive to...
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The Meandering Current Mobility Model and Its Impact on Underwater Mobile Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
Underwater mobile acoustic sensor networks are promising tools for the exploration of the oceans. These networks require new robust solutions for fundamental issues such as: localization service...
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Cross-Layer Packet Size Optimization for Wireless Terrestrial, Underwater, and Underground Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper, a cross-layer solution for packet size optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is introduced such that the effects of multi-hop routing, the broadcast nature of the physical...
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T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
This paper introduces T-Lohi, a new class of distributed and energy-efficient Media-ACcess protocols (MAC) for UnderWater acoustic Sensor Networks (UWSN). MAC design for UWSN faces significant...
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An Efficient Identity-Based Batch Verification Scheme for Vehicular Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
With the adoption of state-of-the-art telecommunication technologies for sensing and collecting traffic related information, Vehicular Sensor Networks (VSNs) have emerged as a new application...
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Underwater Localization in Sparse 3D Acoustic Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
The authors study the localization problem in sparse 3D underwater sensor networks. Considering the fact that depth information is typically available for underwater sensors, they transform the 3D...
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On Maintaining Sensor-Actor Connectivity in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs), a group of sensors and actors are connected by a wireless medium to perform distributed sensing and acting tasks. Sensors usually gather information...
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Sequence-Based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
January 1, 2008 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors presented a simple and novel localization technique based on location sequences called SBL. In SBL, location sequences are used to uniquely identify distinct regions in...
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