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HOTNETS
2010
14 years 11 months ago
"Extra-sensory perception" for wireless networks
Commodity smartphones and tablet devices now come equipped with a variety of sensors, including accelerometers, multiple positioning sensors, magnetic compasses, and inertial sens...
Lenin Ravindranath, Calvin C. Newport, Hari Balakr...
GLOBECOM
2007
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
A MAC Protocol with Directional Antennas for Deafness Avoidance in Ad Hoc Networks
Abstract—Directional antennas are expected to provide significant improvements over omni-directional antennas in wireless ad hoc networks. Directional MAC protocols, however, int...
Masanori Takata, Masaki Bandai, Takashi Watanabe
ATAL
2010
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
UAV swarm coordination using cooperative control for establishing a wireless communications backbone
In this paper, we present a mechanism to fly a swarm of UAVs with the aim of establishing a wireless backbone over a pre-specified area. The backbone is aimed at connecting interm...
Achudhan Sivakumar, Colin Keng-Yan Tan
SECON
2010
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
C-DMRC: Compressive Distortion-Minimizing Rate Control for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Abstract--This paper investigates the potential of the compressed sensing (CS) paradigm for video streaming in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks. The objective is to co-design a ...
Scott Pudlewski, Tommaso Melodia, Arvind Prasanna
INFOCOM
2011
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
SelectCast: Scalable data aggregation scheme in wireless sensor networks
—In this work, for a wireless sensor network (WSN) of n randomly placed sensors with node density λ ∈ [1, n], we study the tradeoffs between the aggregation throughput and gat...
Cheng Wang, ShaoJie Tang, Xiang-Yang Li, Changjun ...