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Electric power grid contains three main subsystems, i.e., power generation, power transmission & distribution, and customer facilities. Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been considered as a promising technology that can enhance all these three subsystems, making WSNs an important component of the smart grid. However, environmental noise and interference from nonlinear electric power...
Multi-vehicle systems composed of Autonomous Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are largely used for industrial transportation in manufacturing and logistics systems. Deployment of a team of AGVs raises management and coordination problems such as deadlock and collision avoidance, conflict resolution, and shared resources negotiation. Decentralized approaches are more suitable than centralized ones for dealing...
We propose a simple scheme for detecting selfish behavior achieved by manipulating the 802.11 Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol. Specifically, attacks that exploit the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF) parameters and data rate adaption scheme to maximize individual throughput pose a denial of service threat against protocol abiding nodes. We detect this malicious behavior by employing a combination...
Sensor association rules, which are a kind of behavioral pattern that aims to capture the temporal relations between sensor nodes, has proven to be a promising tool for improving wireless sensor network (WSN) performance and its quality of service (QoS) by participating in the resource management process and by compensating for the undesired effects of wireless communication. To prepare the data needed...
This paper presents the IPv6 wireless sensor network platform system TaraxNode. It is designed and implemented with independent intellectual property rights. For effectively monitoring, we developed TaraxOS, which includes a cluster-based self-organized multi-hop routing protocol. It is a multi-task, high-powered, low energy-consumed operating system for sensor nodes. TaraxNode containing heterogeneous...
IEEE P1900.4 is an emerging standard for optimized radio resource utilization where cognitive radio technologies are used for efficient spectrum utilization. In this paper, we design and implement a cognitive wireless network system based on open documents of IEEE P1900.4, and evaluate its performance using UDP streaming and HTTP download. Our experiments show interesting results that total network...
IEEE 802.11e provides basic mechanisms for traffic differentiation in WLANs previously unavailable with the IEEE 802.11 standard. The enhanced distributed channel access (EDCA) is probably the most promising subset of such mechanisms, and it is already implemented in a huge number of Network Cards. In this paper we present an algorithm for the provisioning of QoS in EDCA WLANs. The algorithm is based...
A new technique is proposed that enables TCP to distinguish wireless packet losses and spurious timeouts from congestion-related packet losses and timeouts. This is achieved by introducing a wireless enhancement proxy (WENP) that provides radio network feedback to the TCP sender with the aid of two of the TCP header reserved bits. The standard TCP congestion control mechanism is modified to accommodate...
The increasing ubiquity of mobile embedded systems has been matched by the evolution of a variety of wireless network standards and technologies. The major constraints of wireless embedded systems are limitations of communication bandwidth, processing capabilities, and battery power. Remote wireless embedded systems often act as sensors, which provide data to a certain community. The exchange of data...
A principal factor in sensor network design is energy efficiency. In this work, we propose to extend the lifetime of sensor networks using appropriate choice of sensor node distribution. The key idea of our scheme is to deploy more nodes in areas of extensive energy usage. Using this scheme of sensor node distribution, we use probabilistic angular routing to route data packets from the sensor nodes...
Expected growth in use and implementation of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in different environments and for different applications creates new security challenges. In WSNs, a malicious node may initiate incorrect path information, change the contents of data packets, and even hijack one or more genuine network nodes. As the network reliability completely depends on individual nodespsila presence...
Sink mobility has become an increasingly important requirement of various sensor network applications. Handling such mobile sink conditions brings new challenges to large-scale sensor networking. This investigation proposed a hybrid-structure routing protocol (HSRP) that combines the benefits of grid-based and cluster-based structures. Grid-based structure is designed to solve the cluster head selection...
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