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DCOSS
2009
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Empirical Evaluation of Wireless Underground-to-Underground Communication in Wireless Underground Sensor Networks
Abstract. Many applications for irrigation management and environment monitoring exploit buried sensors wired-connected to the soil surface for information retrieval. Wireless Unde...
Agnelo R. Silva, Mehmet C. Vuran
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
MCP: An Energy-Efficient Code Distribution Protocol for Multi-Application WSNs
In this paper, we study the code distribution problem in multi-application wireless sensor networks (MA-WSNs), i.e., sensor networks that can support multiple applications. While M...
Weijia Li, Youtao Zhang, Bruce Childers
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Efficient Sensor Placement for Surveillance Problems
Pankaj K. Agarwal, Esther Ezra, Shashidhara K. Gan...
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
A Sensor Network System for Measuring Traffic in Short-Term Construction Work Zones
In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a sensor network system for monitoring the flow of traffic through temporary construction work zones. As opposed to long-...
Manohar Bathula, Mehrdad Ramezanali, Ishu Pradhan,...
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Distributed Generation of a Family of Connected Dominating Sets in Wireless Sensor Networks
We study the problem of computing a family of connected dominating sets in wireless sensor networks (WSN) in a distributed manner. A WSN is modelled as a unit disk graph G = (V, E)...
Kamrul Islam, Selim G. Akl, Henk Meijer
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Local Construction of Spanners in the 3-D Space
Abstract. In this paper we present local distributed algorithms for constructing spanners in wireless sensor networks modeled as unit ball graphs (shortly UBGs) and quasi-unit ball...
Iyad A. Kanj, Ge Xia, Fenghui Zhang
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 4 months ago
Compressed RF Tomography for Wireless Sensor Networks: Centralized and Decentralized Approaches
Radio Frequency (RF) tomography refers to the process of inferring information about an environment by capturing and analyzing RF signals transmitted between nodes in a wireless se...
Mohammad A. Kanso, Michael G. Rabbat
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Fast Self-stabilization for Gradients
Abstract. Gradients are distributed distance estimates used as a building block in many sensor network applications. In large or long-lived deployments, it is important for the est...
Jacob Beal, Jonathan Bachrach, Daniel Vickery, Mar...
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Detection and Localization Sensor Assignment with Exact and Fuzzy Locations
Sensor networks introduce new resource allocation problems in which sensors need to be assigned to the tasks they best help. Such problems have been previously studied in simplifi...
Hosam Rowaihy, Matthew P. Johnson, Diego Pizzocaro...
DCOSS
2009
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Finding Symbolic Bug Patterns in Sensor Networks
Abstract. This paper presents a failure diagnosis algorithm for summarizing and generalizing patterns that lead to instances of anomalous behavior in sensor networks. Often multipl...
Mohammad Maifi Hasan Khan, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Ji...