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CN
2007
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BiSNET: A biologically-inspired middleware architecture for self-managing wireless sensor networks
This paper describes BiSNET (Biologically-inspired architecture for Sensor NETworks), a middleware architecture that addresses several key issues in multi-modal wireless sensor ne...
Pruet Boonma, Junichi Suzuki
IJSNET
2008
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Minimum-cost sensor arrangement for achieving wanted coverage lifetime
: Suppose we need to watch a set of targets continuously for a required period of time, and suppose we choose any number of sensors from a fixed set of sensor types and place them ...
Jie Wang, Ning Zhong
IJRR
2008
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Active Electrolocation for Underwater Target Localization
We explore the capabilities of a robotic sensing system designed to locate objects underwater through active movement of an electric field emitter and sensor apparatus. The system ...
James R. Solberg, Kevin M. Lynch, Malcolm A. MacIv...
IJNSEC
2008
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ECPKS: An Improved Location-Aware Key Management Scheme in Static Sensor Networks
A location-aware scheme uses a priori knowledge of the deployed sensor nodes of some target field in a sensor network. Such location-aware schemes improve substantially higher net...
Ashok Kumar Das
CORR
2006
Springer
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Restricted Strip Covering and the Sensor Cover Problem
Suppose we are given a set of objects that cover a region and a duration associated with each object. Viewing the objects as jobs, can we schedule their beginning times to maximiz...
Adam L. Buchsbaum, Alon Efrat, Shaili Jain, Suresh...
COMCOM
2006
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Coverage-adaptive random sensor scheduling for application-aware data gathering in wireless sensor networks
Due to the application-specific nature of wireless sensor networks, application-aware algorithm and protocol design paradigms are highly required in order to optimize the overall ...
Wook Choi, Sajal K. Das
COMCOM
2006
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Relay node placement in large scale wireless sensor networks
Scalability and extended lifetime are two critical design goals of any large scale wireless sensor network. A two-tiered network model has been proposed recently for this purpose....
Jian Tang, Bin Hao, Arunabha Sen
COMCOM
2006
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Secret instantiation in ad-hoc networks
In this paper, we focus our attention on the problem of assigning initial secrets to users in ad-hoc network (respectively, sensors in a sensor network) so that they can use those...
Sandeep S. Kulkarni, Mohamed G. Gouda, Anish Arora
COMCOM
2006
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Energy-efficient coverage problems in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks
Wireless sensor networks constitute the platform of a broad range of applications related to national security, surveillance, military, health care, and environmental monitoring. ...
Mihaela Cardei, Jie Wu
CN
2006
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Detection and diagnosis of data inconsistency failures in wireless sensor networks
Most fault-tolerant schemes for wireless sensor networks focus on power failures or crash faults. Little attention has been paid to the data inconsistency failures which occur whe...
Kuo-Feng Ssu, Chih-Hsun Chou, Hewijin Christine Ji...