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CSE
2009
IEEE
15 years 26 days ago
Completely Distributed Low Duty Cycle Communication for Long-Living Sensor Networks
A lifetime of several years for wireless sensor nodes can be achieved if their activity period is minimized. This can be done by using low duty cycle protocols. One of the challeng...
Marcin Brzozowski, Hendrik Salomon, Peter Langendo...
ADHOCNOW
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Probability Distributions for Channel Utilisation
Sensor nets have many undisputed fields of application. A paradigm of communication is the use of one control channel in the MAC layer. We challenge this paradigm for nodes with v...
Christian Schindelhauer, Kerstin Voß
MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Automatic administration of the get up and go test
In-home monitoring using sensors has the potential to improve the life of elderly and chronically ill persons, assist their family and friends in supervising their status, and pro...
Dounia Berrada, Mario Romero, Gregory D. Abowd, Ma...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
On the Construction of a Maximum-Lifetime Data Gathering Tree in Sensor Networks: NP-Completeness and Approximation Algorithm
Abstract—Energy efficiency is critical for wireless sensor networks. The data gathering process must be carefully designed to conserve energy and extend the network lifetime. Fo...
Yan Wu, Sonia Fahmy, Ness B. Shroff
MOBIQUITOUS
2007
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Temporary Interconnection of ZigBee Personal Area Network (PAN)
—ZigBee is popular for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) devices because of its low power consumption, built-in security method and ratified specifications. With these features, it...
Sewook Jung, Alexander Chang, Mario Gerla