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Intra-vehicular wireless sensor networks is a promising new research area that can provide part cost, assembly, maintenance savings and fuel efficiency through the elimination of the wires, and enable new sensor technologies to be integrated into vehicles, which would otherwise be impossible using wired means, such as Intelligent Tire. The most suitable technology that can meet high reliability, strict...
Wireless sensor networks can be used to improve both safety critical and unsafety critical aircrafts systems. Using wireless sensor networks can help to increase the number of sensors as well the system redundancy and also helps to reduce the aircraft system weight and complexity, improving the fuel efficiency and maintenance costs. Supporting standard protocols in all wireless sensor nodes simplifies...
In this paper, we address the relay assignment in cooperative networks based on order statistics. We consider a network comprising a cluster of transmitting sources, a cluster of relay nodes and a single destination. This is motivated by the fact that the existing relay assignment schemes don't achieve diversity for the network configuration under consideration. We assume that the cooperation is in...
We analyze the energy efficiency of reactive and proactive relay selection algorithms under the incremental decode-and-forward protocol. By taking into account the consumption of the RF circuitry, the transmit power, and a nonlinear model for the battery, we show that a large number of available relays can actually compromise the energy efficiency of the system. Our results show that, depending on...
Given the growing concern over energy consumption and associated global warming, green communication is becoming more and more important. Lots of efforts have been put into investigating energy efficiency based design in wireless systems. Unfortunately, the maximum energy efficiency of a point-to-point link is normally achieved when the transmit power approaches zero, which, however, is not desirable...
Modeling the link quality is essential in achieving and maintaining stable communication and minimizing energy consumption by controlling packet transmissions across a wireless sensor network. The quality of the communication links is a function of many variables including location, distance, direction and time. In this paper, we investigate the statistical channel models for spatial and temporal...
We consider a time slotted cognitive radio (CR) network under Rayleigh fading where multiple secondary users (SUs) contend for spectrum usage over available primary users' channels. In the contention, all SUs use common access probabilities to decide whether they access one of available channels. We focus on the throughput performance of an arbitrary SU. To improve the throughput performance of SUs,...
Cognitive radio is promising in improving spectrum efficiency by enabling unlicensed users to access to the licensed spectrum. Spectrum auction is perceived as a potential way to realize it. Primary users (PUs) act as sellers selling unused spectrum bands and secondary users (SUs) act as buyers who intend to get spectrum bands from PUs. In situations where multiple PUs and SUs exist, double auction...
Rate adaptation, which adapts transmission bit rate according to current wireless link conditions, is a fundamental mechanism used by link-layer protocols to improve the performance of 802.11 wireless access networks in terms of throughput. However, rate adaptation faces to severe challenges due to more and more congested and dynamic wireless links. In this paper, we design a hybrid rate adaptation...
Efficient communication in the crowded ISM band requires the communication networks to be aware of the networking environment and to control their communication protocols accordingly. In this paper we address the issue of efficient WSN communication under WLAN interference. We propose analytic models to describe the WLAN idle time distributions as observed by the WSN nodes, together with efficient...
Several future wireless communication systems will exploit multiple frequency channels simultaneously to reduce delay, enhance throughput and/or improve robustness. Nevertheless, the impact of multi-channel communications on different applications has not been comprehensively studied even though it is of significant importance to understand the interdependencies between the communication and application...
The objective of improving energy efficiency in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a primary design requirement given the limited energy available in the battery powered sensor nodes. In this paper, a battery aware distributed clustering and routing protocol is proposed for the maximization of the network lifetime. The proposed protocol incorporates the state of the battery's remaining charge and...
For energy constrained wireless sensor networks, lifetime is a critical issue. Several medium access control protocols have been proposed to address this issue, often at the cost of poor network capacity. To address both capacity and energy issues, we propose a novel medium sharing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks named Cascading Tournament (CT-MAC). CT-MAC is a synchronous, localized, dynamic,...
Short preamble MAC protocols such as X-MAC use a series of consecutive short preamble packets with pauses between them, which refer to as a strobed preamble. Target receiver can send an ACK packet during those pauses to stop the preamble transmission. Hence, the average length of transmitted preamble is reduced in this way, higher energy efficiency and lower latency are achieved accordingly. But with...
Localization is a vital foundation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, most previous localization methods assume an idealistic radio propagation model that is far from reality. This will lead to inaccurate localization, since unknown nodes cannot receive enough location messages under the radio irregularity model. In our previous work “LMAT”, we solved the path planning problem of the mobile...
One of the most rapidly expanding areas, nowadays, in networking systems is the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Typically WSNs rely on multi-hop routing protocols which must be able to establish communication among nodes and guarantee packet deliveries. In this paper, we present a novel approach for the implementation of the WSN routing protocols, which takes advantage of modern FPGAs in order to provide...
As the technology of multimedia applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is highly desired nowadays, how to guarantee real-time service becomes one of the biggest research challenges in this area. Even though lots of related works have been conducted to meet this requirement in several ways, the specific traffic model for multimedia applications has not been taken yet. It makes these new approaches...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) deployed in an outdoor environment, obstacles may occur as a result of a non-uniform distribution of the sensor nodes or the presence of barriers. These obstacles result in a degradation of the network performance, so obstacle identification is a major concern in most WSN applications. This paper develops a Decentralized Boundary Detection (DBD) algorithm for identifying...
The usage of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to monitor a region is an important functionality in defense and security applications. In these applications, a fundamental issue is to determine the minimum degree of coverage in the concerned region. The past researches focus on the binary disk sensing model, where sensors are assumed to be accurate in detecting targets within their sensing ranges. In...
As more and more wireless communication scenarios, such as Internet of Things and 4G wireless networks, rely on the deployment of wireline networks, the analysis of the heterogeneous wired-wireless networks becomes critical. In this paper, the probability mass function (PMF) of the number of hops in heterogeneous wired and wireless networks is analyzed. The nodes are assumed to be spatially distributed...
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