User adaptive systems in the context of pervasive computing can only unveil their power if based on a generic middleware managing private data and context information in combinati...
A wireless body sensor network hardware has been designed and implemented based on MICS (Medical Implant Communication Service) band. The MICS band offers the advantage of miniatur...
Mehmet R. Yuce, Steven W. P. Ng, Naung L. Myo, Jam...
— This paper discusses a joint decentralized clustering and ranging algorithm for wireless ad-hoc sensor networks. Each sensor uses a random waiting timer and local criteria to d...
A MAC protocol specifies how nodes in a sensor network access a shared communication channel. Desired properties of a MAC protocol are: it should be contention-free (avoid collisio...
Costas Busch, Malik Magdon-Ismail, Fikret Sivrikay...
Efficient and fair resource allocation associated with congestion control in multi-hop cognitive radio networks (CRN) is a challenging problem. In this paper, we consider their mu...