— When an emergency occurs within a building, it may be initially safer to send autonomous mobile nodes, instead of human responders, to explore the area and identify hazards and...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployed for missioncritical applications face the fundamental challenge of meeting stringent spatiotemporal performance requirements using nodes w...
Guoliang Xing, Jianping Wang, Ke Shen, Qingfeng Hu...
— We study a fully distributed, reactive algorithm for deployment and maintenance of a mobile communication backbone that provides an area around a network gateway with wireless ...
Nikolaus Correll, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vicker...
Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSN) are widely used in many applications, such as oceanic resource exploration, pollution monitoring, tsunami warnings and mine reconnaissance. In UW...
Monitoring of environmental phenomena with embedded networked sensing confronts the challenges of both unpredictable variability in the spatial distribution of phenomena, coupled ...
Maxim A. Batalin, Mohammad H. Rahimi, Yan Yu, Duo ...