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JNW
2007
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13 years 4 months ago
The Effect of Physical Topology on Wireless Sensor Network Lifetime
— Wireless sensor networks must measure environmental conditions, such as temperature, over extended periods and therefore require a long system lifetime. The design of long life...
Debdhanit Yupho, Joseph Kabara
ITNG
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Implementing and Validating an Environmental and Health Monitoring System
In this paper the authors describe the implementation and validation of a prototype of an environmental and health monitoring system based on a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The ...
Marco Messina, Yen Yang Lim, Elaine Lawrence, Don ...
ICC
2008
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
An Opportunistic Directional MAC Protocol for Multihop Wireless Networks with Switched Beam Directional Antennas
— Directional antennas in multihop wireless networks offer a potential increase in the spatial reuse of the wireless channel. However, existing directional MAC protocols are not ...
Osama Bazan, Muhammad Jaseemuddin
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Perpetual environmentally powered sensor networks
— Environmental energy is an attractive power source for low power wireless sensor networks. We present Prometheus, a system that intelligently manages energy transfer for perpet...
Xiaofan Jiang, Joseph Polastre, David E. Culler
JCM
2006
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13 years 5 months ago
Using Micro-Genetic Algorithms to Improve Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks are widely adopted in many location-sensitive applications including disaster management, environmental monitoring, military applications where the precise...
Vincent Tam, King-Yip Cheng, King-Shan Lui