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IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Quantizer design and distributed encoding algorithm for source localization in sensor networks
— In this paper, we propose a quantizer design algorithm that is optimized for source localization in sensor networks. For this application, the goal is to minimize the amount of...
Yoon Hak Kim, Antonio Ortega
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
eBlocks - an enabling technology for basic sensor based systems
—We describe the development of a set of embedded system building blocks, known as eBlocks. An eBlock network can be viewed as a basic form of sensor network that can be develope...
Susan Cotterell, Ryan Mannion, Frank Vahid, Harry ...
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
On target tracking with binary proximity sensors
— We consider the use of binary proximity sensors for tracking targets. Such sensors provide only 1-bit information regarding a target’s presence or absence in their vicinity, ...
WooYoung Kim, Kirill Mechitov, Jeung-Yoon Choi, So...
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Beyond event handlers: programming wireless sensors with attributed state machines
— Event-driven programming is a popular paradigm for programming sensor nodes. It is based on the specification of actions (also known as event handlers) which are triggered by ...
Oliver Kasten, Kay Römer
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 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
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Robust computation of aggregates in wireless sensor networks: distributed randomized algorithms and analysis
A wireless sensor network consists of a large number of small, resource-constrained devices and usually operates in hostile environments that are prone to link and node failures. ...
Jen-Yeu Chen, Gopal Pandurangan, Dongyan Xu
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The sensor selection problem for bounded uncertainty sensing models
We address the problem of selecting sensors so as to minimize the error in estimating the position of a target. We consider a generic sensor model where the measurements can be in...
Volkan Isler, Ruzena Bajcsy
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Statistical model of lossy links in wireless sensor networks
Abstract— Recently, several wireless sensor network studies demonstrated large discrepancies between experimentally observed communication properties and properties produced by w...
Alberto Cerpa, Jennifer L. Wong, Louane Kuang, Mio...
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Towards optimal sleep scheduling in sensor networks for rare-event detection
— Lifetime maximization is one key element in the design of sensor-network-based surveillance applications. We propose a protocol for node sleep scheduling that guarantees a boun...
Qing Cao, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Tian He, John A. St...
IPSN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Lifetime-aware intrusion detection under safeguarding constraints
: This paper addresses the problem of maximizing the service lifetime of a distributed battery-powered sensor network in the context of the network interdiction problem under user-...
Ali Iranli, Hanif Fatemi, Massoud Pedram