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TMC
2010
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15 years 3 months ago
Efficient Coverage Maintenance Based on Probabilistic Distributed Detection
—Many wireless sensor networks require sufficient sensing coverage over long periods of time. To conserve energy, a coverage maintenance protocol achieves desired coverage by act...
Guoliang Xing, Xiangmao Chang, Chenyang Lu, Jianpi...
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TSP
2008
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15 years 4 months ago
On the Impact of Node Failures and Unreliable Communications in Dense Sensor Networks
We consider the problem of decentralized detection in failure-prone tree networks with bounded height. Specifically, we study and contrast the impact on the detection performance o...
Wee-Peng Tay, John N. Tsitsiklis, Moe Z. Win
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
16 years 5 months ago
SoundSense: scalable sound sensing for people-centric applications on mobile phones
Top end mobile phones include a number of specialized (e.g., accelerometer, compass, GPS) and general purpose sensors (e.g., microphone, camera) that enable new people-centric sen...
Hong Lu, Wei Pan, Nicholas D. Lane, Tanzeem Choudh...
WDAG
2004
Springer
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15 years 10 months ago
Contention-Free MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract. A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of such MAC protocol are: it should be distributed and c...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
208views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
16 years 5 months ago
Data management for a smart earth: the Swiss NCCR-MICS initiative
The Swiss National Competence Center for Research in mobile Information and Communication Systems (NCCR-MICS or MICS) is one of several research initiatives sponsored by the Swiss...
Karl Aberer, Gustavo Alonso, Donald Kossmann