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The North American freight railroad industry is trying to leverage wireless sensor networks (WSN) onboard railcars for advanced monitoring and alerting. In railroad environments, freight train WSNs exhibit a linear chain-like topology of significant length. Thus, existing wireless technologies such as the IEEE 802.15.4 communication protocol, based on a star topology, are unable to provide reliable...
Our research team at the University of Nebraska's Advanced Telecommunications Engineering Lab (TEL) is working closely with the North American freight railroad industry to leverage wireless sensor networks (WSN) onboard railcars for advanced monitoring and alerting. Because freight train WSNs exhibit a linear chain-like topology of significant length, the existing IEEE 802.15.4 communication protocol,...
In this paper, we address the problem of maximizing sensor networks lifetime as well as maintain sufficient sensing coverage. The problem of computing redundant sensing areas among neighboring heterogeneous sensors is analyzed. We present a mathematical model to compute the redundancy degree of each sensor without the knowledge of location information for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. Based...
In wireless communications, packet size is one of the most significant parameters that have an impact on the quality of service (QoS). The optimal packet size depends on wireless channel condition and reception performance. However, it is difficult to determine the optimal packet size under time-varying channel in advance. Besides, performance characteristic of wireless devices is virtually unpredictable...
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