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PERCOM
2010
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Practical experiences in enabling and ensuring quality sensing in emergency response applications
Situational awareness in emergency response is critical. Knowing the status of the hazards, the rescue workers, and the building occupants, etc., can greatly help the incident comm...
C. Davison, Daniel Massaguer, Lilia Paradis, M. Re...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Maximizing Lifetime of Sensor-Target Surveillance in Wireless Sensor Networks
—The paper addresses the maximal lifetime problem in sensor-target surveillance networks. Given a set of sensors and targets in an Euclidean plane, each sensor can watch all targ...
Hai Liu, Xiaowen Chu, Yiu-Wing Leung, Xiaohua Jia,...
WINET
2010
159views more  WINET 2010»
14 years 7 months ago
Approximation algorithm for minimal convergecast time problem in wireless sensor networks
In this paper we consider how to collect data from sensors deployed in the Euclidean plane in a timeefficient way. We assume that all sensors could adjust their transmission range...
Weiping Shang, Peng-Jun Wan, Xiaodong Hu
ICC
2008
IEEE
168views Communications» more  ICC 2008»
15 years 3 months ago
Topology Control for Reliable Sensor-to-Sink Data Transport in Sensor Networks
— Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are generally used for harsh environments involving military surveillance, emergency response, and habitat monitoring. Due to severe resource co...
Jiong Wang, Sirisha Medidi
EWSN
2007
Springer
15 years 9 months ago
Crankshaft: An Energy-Efficient MAC-Protocol for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract. This paper introduces Crankshaft, a MAC protocol specifically targeted at dense wireless sensor networks. Crankshaft employs node synchronisation and offset wake-up sched...
Gertjan P. Halkes, Koen Langendoen