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This paper deals with the energy allocation in multi-hop wireless sensor networks. Because the traffic loads are not evenly distributed in a multi-hop wireless sensor network, different sensor nodes usually experience different energy consumption rates. We present Routing Independent Fair Energy-Allocation Scheme (RIFES), which allocates the available energy resource to a sensor node according to...
In many applications of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), the sensing data are disseminated from a source to multiple mobile sinks. Since WSNs consists of a number of sensor nodes with limited capabilities, previous studies mainly discuss on how to send the data efficiently and do not consider the group mobility of mobile sinks that move together staying closely and randomly move within a geographically...
Despite their limited resources, especially energy, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being accepted in many application areas. This makes them a challenging yet an appealing research area. Evidently, a lot of research work revolves around energy efficiency in order to prolong WSNs lifetime. A prominent amount of work suggests keeping radios of sensor nodes in low power sleep mode for most of the...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have the potential to be widely used in many areas for unattended event monitoring. Mainly due to lack of a protected physical boundary, wireless communications are vulnerable to unauthorized interception and detection. Privacy is becoming one of the major issues that jeopardize the successful deployment of wireless sensor networks. While confidentiality of the message...
To address energy constraint problem in sensor networks, node reclamation and replacement strategy has been proposed for networks accessible to human beings and robots. The major challenge in realizing the strategy is how to minimize the system maintenance cost, especially the frequency in replacing sensor nodes with limited number of backup nodes. New duty cycle scheduling schemes are required in...
Deterministic deployment of distributed sensor networks (DSNs) is sometimes impractical in situations where a global map of the environment is either unavailable or of little use because the environment is dynamic or hostile. One way to deal with such situations is to randomly scatter sensor nodes in the area of interest. However, the deployment carried out in such a way is generally far from optimal...
A number of important characteristics of wireless sensor networks such as the lifetime, connectivity and coverage are determined the residual power levels of the nodes in the network. This paper presents a general framework for modeling the availability of power at sensor nodes as a function of time. Models are developed for sensors with and without battery recharging and expressions are derived for...
Wireless Sensor Networks are traditionally composed of a multiplicity of sensor nodes that sense given phenomena and deliver the sensed data to specific sink nodes. In the most of the application scenarios, sensor nodes have been considered motionless. On the contrary, interesting possibilities arise if some sensors are embedded in devices carried by mobile agents as people, cars, animals, etc. If...
In this paper, we propose a caching scheme for wireless sensor networks which exploits cooperation among various sensor nodes in a zone formed around few sensor nodes. Zones are created by using dual radio mode of sensor nodes i.e. high and low power transmission ranges define zone size. In order to realize much larger cumulative cache, a node along with its own storage utilizes storage of sensor...
Sensor networks is a promising technology that can be used to avoid disasters such as fire, storm, etc. This technology needs to be improved in terms of several issues. In this paper, we focus on two issues: coverage and routing. For coverage problem, we introduce a new approach for obtaining a static covered network in the 3-D environment. This technique is referred to as the Chipset model. This...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require appropriate protocols that make judicious use of the finite energy resources of the sensor nodes. In this paper, we investigate the potential energy conservation achieved by balancing the traffic throughout the WSN. We show that distributing the traffic generated by each sensor node through multiple paths instead of using a single path allows significant energy...
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