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Network navigation is a promising paradigm for providing accurate location-awareness in wireless environments, where mobile nodes estimate their locations based on inter- and intra-node measurements. In the presence of limited wireless resources, only a subset rather than all of the node pairs can perform inter-node measurements. Therefore, it is crucial to design efficient scheduling algorithms for...
In this paper, we propose a novel joint routing and medium access control (MAC) protocol with traffic differentiation, based on quality of service (QoS) for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). This is referred to as joint routing and MAC (JRM) protocol. By leveraging the classical layered approach and combining routing and MAC layer functions, the proposed JRM protocol achieves a solution for energy...
In this paper, we investigate the physical-layer security for a wireless communications network comprised of multiple users and a common base station (BS) in the presence of an eavesdropper. We propose a joint user-jammer selection scheme for preventing the eavesdropper from intercepting the confidential user-BS transmission. Specifically, a user is first selected to transmit its message to the BS,...
A distributed consensus algorithm for estimating the degree distribution of a graph is proposed. The proposed algorithm is based on average consensus and in-network empirical mass function estimation. It is fully distributed in the sense that each node in the network only needs to know its own degree, and nodes do not need to be labeled. The algorithm works for any connected graph structure in the...
Overhearing and idle listening are two primary sources for unnecessary energy consumption in wireless sensor networks. Although introducing duty cycling in medium access control (MAC) reduces idle listening, it cannot avoid overhearing in a network with multiple contending nodes. In this paper, we propose an event-triggered sleeping (ETS) mechanism for synchronous duty-cycled (DC) MAC protocols in...
Context awareness plays an important role in many emerging applications, such as mobile computing and smart space. Since FM signal is ubiquitous, it has been recognized as an attractive and promising technique to realize context awareness. When a target is at different locations or performs different activities, it will exert different influence on the FM signal around it. Therefore, it is possible...
As a critical technique to support the multimedia services - the major traffic in cooperative cognitive radio networks (CRNs), the statistical quality-of-service (QoS) technique has been proved to be effective in statistically guaranteeing delay-bounded video transmissions over the time- varying wireless channels. On the other hand, in modern cooperative CRNs, the full-duplex spectrum sensing (FD-SS)...
When extracting physical layer security secret key with multiple wireless channel samples, its capacity is affected by the time difference of channel sounding, terminal's moving speed, sampling period, the number of samples, and additive noise. In order to quantitatively analyze their effects and determine the constrains on the optimal sampling period, a closed-form solution to the physical layer...
When a person is performing repetitive daily activities (e.g. walking, cycling etc.) with equipped motion sensor such as accelerometer, its measured motion signals can go up or down and fluctuates in a periodical manner. In addition, recent researches indicate that the Received Signal Strength (RSS) through wireless channels between on-body sensors and the hub in a Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN)...
Abstract-A max-min fairness resource allocation is studied for wideband cognitive radio under sensing-based spectrum sharing with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. Specifically, the throughput of the worse-case secondary user is maximized by jointly optimizing the sensing time, transmit power and subchannel allocation, subject to constraints on energy harvesting, interference power...
This paper considers an energy harvesting sensor node with finite data and energy storage, which transmits data packets with different reward values to its corresponding receiver node. In this regard, we propose an optimal threshold-based transmission scheduling policy for maximizing the long-term average transmission reward. In particular, we first analyze the performance of the proposed threshold-based...
This paper investigates the impact of antenna correlation on wireless powered dual-hop multi-antenna relaying systems with instantaneous channel state information (CSI) or statistical CSI at the relay. Considering the power-splitting architecture, we study the outage probability as well as the achievable diversity order of the system for amplify-and-forward protocol. Our results show that, antenna...
Cloud robotics is an emerging paradigm that enables autonomous robotic agents to communicate and collaborate with cloud computing infrastructures. It further complements Internet of Things (IoT) to improve the performance of smart city applications. By offloading heavy data- intensive computation to the ubiquitous cloud, quality of service (QoS) guarantee can be ensured. Unlike their mobile counterpart,...
In wireless sensor networks, the need for ultra- low power consuming nodes is one of the main motivations for research in such field. Because radio sections in sensor nodes contribute to a large extent to the overall power consumption, the focus of this study is on the RF transceiver. The aim is to reduce the average power consumption which depends significantly on the circuit architecture design,...
One of the major challenges in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is to extend the network's lifetime by minimizing the energy consumption. One of the ways to do so is to reduce network congestion as it increases delays and introduces additional packet collisions- thus, adversely affecting network performance. In this paper, we analyze this issue in routing and take an evolutionary game theoretic approach...
Cognitive radio (CR) has been advocated to improve the network spectrum efficiency for decades, and the cooperation between the primary and secondary systems has become a new paradigm to further improve the spectrum utilization. However, in practice, secondary transmitters (STs) are usually power constrained, which limits the application of cooperative cognitive radio networks (CCRN). In this paper,...
Achieving energy efficient wireless communication is the most pursued goal in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), as energy consumption is typically a major barrier to long term applications. In recent years, ultra-low power Wake-up Receivers (WuRx) have emerged, enabling pure asynchronous wireless communication that eliminates energy waste due to idle listening. However, to achieve a significant increase...
In applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), all data packets are directed towards a single base-station (BS) over multi-hop routes. The BS is usually responsible for processing the collected data and interfacing the WSN to remote users. The continuous flow of packets towards the BS enables the adversary to analyze the traffic and uncover the BS position. In this paper, we present a technique...
In this paper, we propose a novel formulation for the efficient data gathering problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) based on Matrix Completion technique. The objective here is to optimize the usage of WSN resources during the data gathering process by taking into account an a priori knowledge about the data to be gathered. More precisely, we model the prior knowledge about the target data via...
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