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Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) are getting popular in a variety of fields such as home/office automation, e-healthcare, etc. In WPANs, most devices are considerably energy constrained, so the communication protocol should be energy efficient. The IEEE 802.15.4 is designed as a standard protocol for low power, low data rate, low complexity and short range connections in WPANs. The standard...
Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) have recently received a lot of research interests due to their wide applications in healthcare, security, sports and entertainment. Accurate WBSNs localization is a fundamental problem to be overcome to enable the development of effective location-aware applications. This paper introduces and investigates the performance of WBSN localization algorithms using...
This paper focuses on wireless body area networks (WBAN) targeted for medical ICT applications. The studied network follows a typical IEEE 802.15.4 beacon-enabled star topology. We simulate the collection of medical data from patients using wireless sensors. Impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) is chosen as a physical layer technology, in compliance with the IEEE 802.15.4a standard. Two random access...
Many duty cycling MAC protocols exploit preamble sampling technique to improve the energy efficiency. In this technique, all the devices periodically listen to the medium for a short duration and then go back to sleep if medium is found idle. When a device wants to send data it transmits a long preamble followed by data bits. When the receiver wakes up and detects the preamble it stays awake until...
Dense monitoring of time-varying 2D field by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) needs to define new strategies to aggregate and encode data according to 2D sensor deployments. In this paper optimal design of communication protocol for WSN is conveniently cast for a set of linear sensor networks (sensor arrays) synchronously monitoring a correlated 2D time-varying field (e.g., for tracking time variations)...
Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) allows the integration of low-power, miniaturized, intelligent, invasive or/and non-invasive wireless sensor nodes that are used to monitor the health status of a patient with real-time updates to a base-station/physician. Since multiple low-power sensor nodes are deployed in/on a human body, Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols are required to share the channel...
Currently, in the MAC protocol of wireless sensor network, the sender mote sends data with or without receiving acknowledgements (ACK). Although in some applications, people enable the ACK function, they just use the fixed repeat times. In such scenarios, the sender mote does not care about the quality of the channel when they have to send the data. However, in the real world, the channel may not...
Flooding is a kind of broadcast technology in wireless sensor networks. And it is used in many occasions, such as routing, time synchronization and so on. But large-scale and intense flooding may cause broadcast storm, which aggravates the resource consumption in wireless sensor networks and leads to network congestion. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer flooding strategy for wireless sensor...
In wireless sensor network studies the main objective is minimizing the energy consumption so that the lifetime is maximized under the limited battery capacity constraints. In most event-driven surveillance applications, the end-to-end delay should also be minimized. In this paper we present a new EDO-MAC (energy and delay optimization Media Access Control) which reaches a good balance between energy...
In many applications, wireless sensor networks need to secure information. Actual researches found efficient solutions for this kind of network, principally by using cryptography to secure the data transfer. However an encrypted information send by the network can be sufficient to prevent an attacker, who eavesdrops the network, that something important has been detected. To avoid this situation,...
Wireless networks with the shared media require Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol that provides contention resolution mechanism. The design of MAC protocol in underwater sensor networks is a challenging issue because of limited energy source and high propagation delay. The most important goal of the MAC design for underwater sensor networks is to resolve data packet collision efficiently with respect...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of a lot of sensor nodes with limited battery, memory, and processing capability. Therefore, in WSNs, effective MAC protocol is required to maximize battery life of sensor nodes, to reduce transmission delay, and to minimize communication errors. Routing enhanced MAC (RMAC) uses the path information on network layer so that multi-hop transmission within a cycle...
A new addressing protocol, TTDA (two-tier dynamic addressing protocol), is proposed for cluster-based wireless sensor networks in this paper. Two-tier address assignment is adopted in TTDA, in which the sink node assigns addresses for the cluster heads using Huffman coding to reduce energy consumption by allocating shorter addresses for nodes far from sink, and the cluster head nodes assign addresses...
Energy consumption is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks as the battery of a sensor node, in most cases, cannot be recharged or replaced after deployment. In order to detect an event, a sensor node spends most of the time in monitoring its environment, during which a significant amount of energy can be saved by placing the radio in the low power sleep mode when no reception and/or transmission...
The following topics are dealt with: ad hoc network routing; wireless sensor network security; medium access control; scheduling; resource sharing; MIMO; diversity; power control.
Wireless biosensor networks will enhance the medical performances due to its many advantages such as long term monitoring, fast network establishment, untethered connectivity and ambulatory diagnosis. The network protocol plays a paramount role in performing the medical tasks. Due to many unique challenges imposed on the network design in wireless biosensor networks, especially when it is related...
Networking protocols for multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are required to simultaneously minimize resource usage as well as optimize performance metrics such as latency and reliability. This paper explores the energy-latency-reliability trade-off for broadcast in multi-hop WSNs, by presenting a new protocol called PBBF (probability-based broadcast forwarding). PBBF works at the MAC layer...
In this paper a modified neighbor aware medium-access control protocol is proposed designed for wireless sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks are generally comprised of battery powered nodes. These nodes are densely deployed in an ad-hoc structure. The main objective for sensor networks is low power consumption while latency is less important. This leads different MAC layer design for wireless...
We introduce FLAMA (flow-aware medium access), an energy-efficient medium-access control (MAC) protocol designed for wireless sensor networks. FLAMA achieves energy efficiency by preventing idle listening, data collisions and transmissions to a node that is not ready to receive packets. It adapts medium access schedules to the traffic flows exhibited by the application. FLAMA is simple enough so that...
The design of medium access control (MAC) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) poses several key factors such as energy conservation, bandwidth utilization, throughput, etc. This paper proposes a new MAC protocol referred to as DEE-MAC which reduces energy consumption by making the idle nodes sleep to reduce idle listening using synchronization at cluster heads. Each cluster is dynamically formed as...
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