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Admission control plays an important role in providing Quality of Service (QoS) guarantees for wireless mesh networks (WMNs). Multipath routing can improve network performance in reliability and load balancing. However, when the multipath routing are adopted in 802.11-based WMNs, the transmission with bandwidth assurance is facing rigorous challenges. In this paper, a novel joint design of multipath...
Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are characterized by frequent network partitioning. This causes network connectivity to be opportunistic. In recent years, many collaborative applications have been envisioned for DTNs. These applications rely on the availability of reliable group communication protocols. To address this challenge in DTNs, we propose a scalable multicasting scheme that deterministically...
Broadcasting is an important method of communication in wireless sensor network, the reliability and security of broadcast should be satisfied. Also, due to the limited resources of sensors, reducing the energy consumption is a major consideration. In this paper, we proposed an efficient and reliable broadcast protocol for clustered WSN (ERBP). In ERBP, nodes need its 1-hop neighborhood information...
Many existing Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) synchronisation protocols have demonstrated microsecond-level accuracy is achievable. Furthermore, sub-microsecond-level accuracy has recently been reported, although rather sophisticated, relatively bulky and custom-designed hardware were needed. This paper addresses a fundamental problem in WSN synchronisation: is there a more elegant way to achieve precise...
It is necessary that in the small-or-medium-size wireless sensor networks, the networking information of network and monitoring data of sensors should be sent to the remote computers through the gateway to achieve remote monitoring for the target area. Wireless sensor network data characterize strong bursts, instability of traffic and small amount of data in a single packet. Considering these features...
Sensor networks are composed of many sensors usually far from the region is available. Routing in wireless sensor networks for the transfer of information from sensor nodes to base station is especially important. Optimum consumption of energy is important requirements in wireless sensor networks because sensor systems typically use battery power. In this paper with a routing algorithm to determine...
Trade-off between energy-efficiency and reliability in wireless sensor networks is application dependent. Without the reliability, the extended lifetime of a network is of limited use. Due to the inherent correlation between reliability and congestion, it is necessary to reduce congestion to improve reliability. Existing congestion control algorithms in wireless sensor networks are reactive. They...
We analyze and compare the performance of two adaptive relaying schemes based on the amplify-and-forward and the decode-and-forward protocols which are employed to improve the performance of collaborative spectrum sensing. As our results show, the proposed schemes allow us to improve the reliability of the communication part of the wireless sensor network. We expect that this in turn will improve...
In this paper we focus on the concept of IEEE 802.11 DCF error frame model. Based on the analysis of the model in detail, we point out the error of the simulation algorithm of the DCF error frame model in QualNet simulation environment. Furthermore, we modify the simulation algorithm in QualNet strictly according to the specifications of the DCF error frame model. The simulation results show that...
Lifetime maximization is an important factor in the design of sensor networks for object tracking applications. Some techniques of node scheduling have been proposed to reduce energy consumption. By exploiting the redundancy of network coverage, they turn off unnecessary nodes, or make nodes work in turn, which require high nodes density or sacrificing tracking quality. We present TPSS, a two-phase...
Sensor technologies have become vital today in gathering information about close by environments and its use in wireless sensor networks is getting widespread popular every day. Using heterogeneous nodes in a sensor network increases network reliability and lifetime. Our paper focuses on cluster head selection problem to improve full network coverage. Our proposed algorithm for cluster-based network...
In wireless sensor networks, it is an important task to periodically collect data from an area of interest for time-sensitive applications. The sensed data must be gathered and transmitted to a base station for further processing to meet the end-user queries. Since the network consists of low-cost nodes with limited battery power, it is a challenging task to design an efficient routing scheme that...
Wireless sensor network consisting of a large number of small sensors is effective for gathering various data in a variety of environments. Since each sensor operates on battery, energy efficient data transfer is indispensable to maximize the lifetime of the network. In this paper we propose a new data transfer protocol employed in large-scale wireless sensor network. Here only one designated cluster-head...
Since sensor network lifetime shows a strong dependence on battery lifetime, power consumption is a critical concept in design of sensor network. For the sensor network to operate successfully both requirements of sensing coverage and network connectivity should be met. Other research have joined coverage and connectivity problem at the same time. Sensing coverage is achieved by dividing sensor nodes...
Asset tracking is an important application domain for wireless sensor networks. However, continuous tracking of a large number of items at the individual item level over a significant period of time is still not feasible. There are two main obstacles. The first is the need for efficient, low-power communication protocols. Many current protocols employ energy-expensive methods to achieve reliable communication...
Coverage is an essential task in sensor deployment for the design of wireless sensor networks. While most existing studies on coverage consider homogeneous sensors, the deployment of heterogeneous sensors represents more accurately the network design for real-world applications. In this paper, we focus on the problem of connected k-coverage in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks. Precisely, we...
Embedded wireless networks have largely focused on open loop sensing and monitoring. To address actuation in closed loop wireless control systems there is a strong need to re-think the communication architectures and protocols for reliability, coordination and control. As the links, nodes and topology of wireless systems are inherently unreliable, such time-critical and safety-critical applications...
We consider multi-resolution storage, a technique for providing scalable adaptive data fidelity, necessary for many applications of large wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Although the previously proposed design of multi-resolution storage, based on quad trees and geographic routing, is conceptually simple, it exhibits inherent problems if applied to real-world WSNs. To address these problems, we revisit...
This paper presents a robust, dynamic cross-layer wireless communication architecture for wireless networked control systems. Each layer in the proposed protocol architecture contributes to the overall goal of reliable, energy efficient communication. The protocol stack also features a broadcast-based link-layer that determines and recovers from route failures more rapidly than current wireless technology...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) research has pre-dominantly assumed the use of a portable and limited energy source, viz. batteries, to power sensors. Without energy, a sensor is essentially useless and cannot contribute to the utility of the network as a whole. Consequently, substantial research efforts have been spent on designing energy-efficient networking protocols to maximize the lifetime of...
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