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A sensor network consists of a large number of sensor nodes which have sensing functions and wireless communication functions, and a single sink node which is a base station node of the sensor network. Sensor nodes sense some environmental phenomena and send data packets about the phenomena to the sink node by multi-hop communications. Generally sensor nodes are battery-driven. Therefore shortening...
The challenges associated with wireless vision sensor networks are low energy consumption, less bandwidth and limited processing capabilities. In order to meet these challenges different approaches are proposed. Research in wireless vision sensor networks has been focused on two different assumptions, first is sending all data to the central base station without local processing, second approach is...
In order to balance power usage in heterogeneous sensor networks, the LBGC (Load balancing group clustering) strategy is proposed based on the clustering model. The LBGC protocol periodically selects cluster heads and implements dynamic route calculation according to the condition of energy distributing of network, which could make full use of the heterogeneous energy to realize load balance. Simulation...
The recent interest in Wireless Sensor Networks has led to a number of clustering algorithms that use the limited energy available at sensors more efficiently. In this article, we present a heritable clustering algorithm based on HEED for low energy wireless sensor network. It brings in appointment mechanism to reduce the cluster head reelect overhead efficiently. In the cluster, TDMA communication...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communication capabilities. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a promising data mining solution for precision agriculture. Instrumented with wireless sensors, it will become available to monitor the plants for real time, such as air temperature, soil water content, and nutrition stress. This real time information...
In order to achieve the best performance of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), it is a must to provide a challengeable routing algorithm , which consumes less power and allows more data collection. In this paper we have considered a WSN with mobile sinks and it is considered that the router follows the basic location update algorithm with traffic awareness. We show the performances of a router under...
IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks (IP-based WSNs) combine IPv6 technology with WSNs to create a global sensor network infrastructure. However, wireless radio access and Internet connectivity make end-to-end security urgently needed by security critical WSN applications. Transport Layer Security (TLS) is considered as a suitable solution to ensure such security. However, the certificate-based mechanism...
This paper presents a new data transmission protocol in Delay Tolerant Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks, which divides the data transmission process into two phases: data reception phase and data forwarding phase, mainly fulfilling through analyzing the state of mobile nodes and using Hand up mechanism. Simulation result shows that, through the implementation of two phases, we can obtain a higher message...
The focus of this work is to adaptively optimize continuous queries in a wireless sensor network. Therefore, we analyze and categorize the different types of queries used by wireless sensor applications. We present a short survey on the existing algorithms that can be adapted and used to optimize the different types of queries. We present their strengths and their drawbacks and identify that continuous...
In this paper, we investigate the use of explicit disjoint for the multipath routing to achieve cost-efficient operation of wireless sensor networks. The focus is on constructing completely disjointed multiple paths between the source of sensing stimulus and the destination of gathered sensor data. We propose simple schemes for multipath construction based on explicit multiple anchor nodes. For the...
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...
In wireless sensor networks where nodes are powered by batteries, it is critical to prolong the network lifetime by minimizing the energy consumption of each node. In this paper, the cooperative multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) and data aggregation techniques are jointly adopted to improve energy efficiency in a cluster based wireless sensor network. Using the energy model derived, the average energy...
RSS-based localization is considered a low-complexity algorithm with respect to other range techniques such as TOA or AOA. The accuracy of RSS methods depends on the suitability of the propagation models used for the actual propagation conditions. In indoor environments, in particular, it is very difficult to obtain a good propagation model. For that reason, we present a cooperative location algorithm...
Indoor Wireless sensor networks require a highly dynamic, adaptive routing scheme to deal with the high rate of topology changes due to fading of indoor wireless channels. Besides that, energy consumption rate needs to be consistently distributed among sensor nodes and efficient utilization of battery power is essential. If only the link reliability metric is considered in the routing scheme, it may...
Due to the severe resource constraints of sensor hardware, energy efficiency is one of critical factors for monitoring the movement of the large-scale phenomena such as wild fire and hazardous bio-chemical material, denoted by continuous objects. In order to save energy, most of existing research on tracking the continuous objects focuses on finding the ways to minimize the communication cost through...
In wireless sensor networks, with respect to a desired time deadline real-time data dissemination schemes achieve that by a spatiotemporal communication approach forwarding data from a source to a destination with a delivery speed. The delivery speed is typically obtained from both the static distance from the source to the destination and the interval of the time deadline. However, in case of real-time...
There have been many routing protocols proposed for data dissemination to multiple mobile sinks in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), and the protocols regard each sink as an individually distributed single entity without relationship of each other. Recently, mobile group entities have been introduced in WSNs. A number of mobile sinks move together in a group manner, and mobile sinks in the group stay...
Multiple targets tracking is one of the challenging applications in a wireless sensor network due to targets' movement in different directions, targets' speed variations and frequent connectivity failures of low powered sensor nodes. If all the low-powered sensor nodes are kept active in tracking multiple targets' coming from different directions of the network, there is high probability of network...
Due to uncertainties in target motion and limited sensing regions of sensors, collaborative target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) suffers from low tracking accuracy and lack of reliability when a target cannot be detected by a scheduled sensor. Generally, actuating multiple sensors can achieve better tracking performance but with high energy consumption. Tracking accuracy, reliability,...
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