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Biologically Inspired Cooperative Routing for Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks

September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Biological systems present remarkable adaptation, reliability, and robustness in various environments, even under hostility. Most of them are controlled by the individuals in a distributed and...

Provided by: IEEE

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Signal-Processing-Aided Distributed Compression in Virtual MIMO-Based Wireless Sensor Networks

September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

An adaptive signal-processing-aided distributed source coding scheme for virtual multiple-input-multiple-output communication-based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is proposed. A computationally...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

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Cognitive and Self-Healing Routing for Sensor Networks

September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

New approaches to Quality-of-Service (QoS) Routing in wireless sensor networks which use different forms of learning are the subject of this paper. The Cognitive Packet Network (CPN) algorithm...

Provided by: Imperial College London

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Rao-Blackwellized Variable Rate Particle Filtering for Handset Tracking in Communication and Sensor Networks

September 1, 2007 12:00am PDT

Knowledge about the position of a user's mobile handset device constitutes a valuable information for emerging location - based services and applications. While satellite - based navigation...

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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Network-Based System Architecture for Remote Medical Applications

August 31, 2007 12:00am PDT

Nowadays, the evolution of wireless communication and network technologies enables remote medical services to be available everywhere in the world. In this paper, a network-based system...

Provided by: Fudan University

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A Measurement Study for ARQ-Based Reliable Data Transmission for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensors on Fast Rotating Structures

August 31, 2007 12:00am PDT

Wireless sensors capable of sensing, processing, and wireless communication have been adopted for monitoring purposes in a variety of contexts, many of which feature challenging radio propagation...

Provided by: Clemson University

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Joint Encoder - Controller Design for Feedback Control Over Noisy Channels

August 31, 2007 12:00am PDT

The authors study a closed-loop control system with feedback transmitted over a noisy discrete memoryless channel. They propose a joint design of the sensor measurement quantization, protection...

Provided by: KTH Royal Institute of Technology

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Experiences From Two Sensor Network Deployments - Self-Configuration a Key to Success

August 30, 2007 12:00am PDT

Various experiments have shown that the performance of wireless sensor networks is very hard to predict. It is also acknowledged that deploying sensor networks in real settings is a difficult and...

Provided by: Swedish Institute of Computer Science

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Images: Car tech for the masses

August 29, 2007 4:30am PDT

Telematics Research Group says that 2008 will be the car-model year that sees high-tech navigation and communication make its way from luxury models to standard or optional equipment across the...

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Robust and Timely Communication Over Highly Dynamic Sensor Networks

August 29, 2007 12:00am PDT

Highly dynamic sensor networks, such as mobile robotic sensor networks, have been applied in various kinds of application scenarios such as real-time planet exploration and deep-ocean discovery....

Provided by: Springer Science+Business Media

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Provably Secure Framework for Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks

August 29, 2007 12:00am PDT

Information aggregation is an important operation in wireless sensor networks executed for the purpose of monitoring and reporting of the environmental data. Due to the performance constraints of...

Provided by: Ruhr-University Bochum

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Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID Integration for ContextAware Services

August 29, 2007 12:00am PDT

Off late, the debate over the integration of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has garnered an increasing amount of attention despite their appearing to be...

Provided by: Information and Communications University

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Enhanced Non-Disjoint Multi-Path Source Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks

August 28, 2007 12:00am PDT

A wireless ad-hoc network is a temporal network formed by a collection of wireless mobile nodes without the aid of any existing network infrastructure or centralized administration. This network...

Provided by: Springer Science+Business Media

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Multi-Path Key Establishment for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Just Enough Redundancy Transmission

August 28, 2007 12:00am PDT

In random key pre-distribution techniques for wireless sensor networks, a relatively small number of keys are randomly chosen from a large key pool and loaded on the sensors prior to deployment....

Provided by: Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers

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BioProtection_App_ v5.0.2.4.zip 7.9.0.4 (Windows)

August 28, 2007 12:00am PDT

This package supports the following driver models:AuthenTec Inc. AES1610AuthenTec Inc. AES2501AuthenTec Inc. AES2501AAuthenTec AES4000AuthenTec AES4000 TruePrint SensorAuthenTec AES4000 TruePrint...

Provided by: Acer

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Intelligent Monitoring Using Wireless Sensor Networks

August 27, 2007 12:00am PDT

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) enable smart environments to provide pervasive and ubiquitous applications, which give context-aware and scalable services to the end users. In this paper, an...

Provided by: Acadia University

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Evaluating Mobility Support in ZigBee Networks

August 27, 2007 12:00am PDT

The deployment of ZigBee networks is expected to facilitate numerous applications, such as home healthcare, medical monitoring, consumer electronics, and environmental sensors. For many envisioned...

Provided by: University of California

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Leveraging Biologically-Inspired Mobile Agents Supporting Composite Needs of Reliability and Timeliness in Sensor Applications

August 25, 2007 12:00am PDT

Wireless sensor networks are often used for event detection applications, which require a certain level of reliability and timeliness while minimizing energy consumption. Existing work considers...

Provided by: University of Massachusetts

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Energy-Efficient Cooperative Communication Based on Power Control and Selective Relay in Wireless Sensor Networks

August 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

Cooperative communication with single relay selection is a simple yet effective communication scheme for energy-constrained networks. This paper investigates the minimum energy relay selection...

Provided by: University of Connecticut

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The Time-Correlated Update Problem

August 24, 2007 12:00am PDT

Recent advances in the fields of sensor networks and mobile robotics have provided the means to place monitoring/sensing equipment in an increasingly wide variety of environments - a significant...

Provided by: Columbia University