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In the last decade, wireless positioning systems have drawn a strong interest from a research point of view, especially for indoor environments where Global Positioning Systems (GPS) is not available. As an alternative, emerging applications relying on Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) communication technology have been proposed to offer a ranging accuracy in the order of some dozens of centimeters. Indeed, UWB...
Emerging applications of Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) combine low to medium rate communications with positioning capabilities allowing centimeter level accuracy in ranging. For positioning systems employing UWB radios, time-based schemes provide very good accuracy due to the high time resolution of UWB signals. These time-based positioning systems rely on measurements of travel times of signal between nodes...
Many WSN industrial applications impose requirements in terms of end to end delay. However, the end to end delay estimation in WSNs is not a simple task because of the high dynamic of networks, the use of duty-cycled MAC protocols as well as the impact of the routing protocols. Markov-based modelling is an interesting approach to deal with this problem aiming to provide an analytical model useful...
This article introduces a metaheuristic approach to solve a variation of the well-known Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP). We present a solution for the Multi-Trip VRP with Time Windows and Heterogeneous Fleet. We add constraints to the original VRP concerning the time and the customer supply. Time constraints concerns the time windows on each customer and time horizon within which customers must be satisfied...
Performance analysis of wireless sensor networks is a difficult task because of the high dynamic of networks and the use of duty-cycled MAC protocols. Markov-based modelling is an interesting approach to deal with this problem. However, existing Markov-based analytic models, being MAC protocol-centric rather than network-centric, work under strong assumptions and do not allow to encompassing important...
In the current protocol stack for Internet of Things in general and wireless sensor network in particular, many devices rely on the Contiki MAC protocol at their MAC layer. This protocol is widely used and enabled by default for several industrial environments and time sensitive monitoring and control applications. However, few work exists regarding the performance of this protocol because it lacks...
IEEE 802.15.4 protocol stack is the basis of many wireless sensor networks (WSN) and has been proposed for low data rate and low power applications. The standard defines a duty cycle in order to allow devices to achieve efficient energy consumption. Defining the best duty cycle configuration becomes important to extend the network life time. Several works have been done in order to study the behavior...
In this work, we present an empirical support of an analytical approach which employs a frequency domain analysis for estimating end-to-end delay in multi-hop networks. The proposed analytical results of the end-to-end delay distribution are validated through simulation and compared with queueing based analysis by defining two concrete scenarios. Our results demonstrate that an analytical prediction...
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