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Mobile objects can be used to gather samples from a sensor field. Civilian vehicles or even human beings equipped with proper wireless communication devices can be used as mobile sinks that retrieve sensor-data from sampling points within a large sensor field. A key challenge is how to gather the sensor data in a manner that is energy efficient with respect to the sensor nodes that serve as sources...
The innovation in wireless technology is to support in the areas of Intelligent Transport System (ITS). Wireless technology can be used in Vehicle-to-Vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure in transport applications. ZigBee is the key protocol for sensor network applications because of the long battery life, low-cost for installation, eases maintenance and small footprint. ZigBee enables mesh networking...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are a sensing, computing and communication infrastructure that are able to observe and respond to phenomena in the natural environment and in our physical and cyber infrastructure. The sensors themselves can range from small passive micro sensors to larger scale, controllable weather-sensing platforms. In this work, we investigate how the sensor network performs in the...
We examine the indoor single-room localisation problem while using multiple fixed transmitters (anchors) and multiple mobile receivers placed on the user (mobiles). Anchors transmit a periodic beacon that the mobiles receive and of which they measure the received power level value (RSSI). Using this information only, which requires no specialised hardware, the mobiles estimate the position and orientation...
This paper presents CARNIVORE, a system for in-situ, yet unobtrusive monitoring of cryptic, difficult-to-catch/observe wildlife in their natural habitat. CARNIVORE consists of a network of mobile and static nodes that have sensing, processing, storage, and wireless communication capabilities. One of CARNIVORE'S notable novel features is its robustness to intermittent node connectivity since, depending...
This paper presents "SimPlayGround" - a framework for the stimulative evaluation of reactive and proactive power-management approaches in distributed energy harvesting systems. Our simulation framework combines the simulation of wireless communication, the behavior of reversible power supplies and the dynamics of power consumption. It supports models of the environmental power and energy...
Mobile and wireless networks have developed significantly because of improved flexibility, reduced costs and adaptability to various technologies. In portable technologies, the main factor is node mobility, which causes frequent changes in network topology. Multicast routing protocols affects the performance of network topology. Routing paths in MANETs and WSNs potentially contain multi-hop communications...
With the rapid development of computer communication and web technology, especially the widely application of wireless sensor and embedded technology, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been paid great attention in industry field and our daily life. WSNs based on ARM7TDMI-S CPU and ZigBee device has merit of rapid and simple in networking, node movable in application, abundant information in acquisition,...
Recent advances in wireless technology have led to the proliferation of wireless devices, ranging from wireless LAN to cellular phones. There has been, and will be, an increase in not only the number of wireless services, but also the number of types of wireless services, and greater demand for mobility, portability, and integrated services. For wireless success to continue, technologies must support...
The availability of secret keys is a precondition for the use of many security solutions and protocols. However, securely assigning such keys to nodes is a challenging task in the context of wireless sensor networks. In this paper we present a novel solution for a secure key assignment in wireless sensor networks that can be used during the initial configuration of nodes or for an ad-hoc key assignment...
Certain popular wireless sensor network applications, including disaster recovery, battlefield communication and athlete monitoring, are characterized by extensive node mobility, intermittent contact between nodes and a highly dynamic network topology. Traditional routing protocols and security schemes are designed for essentially static networks and do not perform well in this case. This has given...
This paper presents the interference of ultra wide-band (UWB) sensor applied in Korea into wireless broad-band (WiBro) system based on orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) using frequency of 2.3 GHz. The minimum coupling loss (MCL) method and spectrum engineering advanced Monte Carlo analysis tool (SEAMCAT) are used to evaluate the interference effects of UWB sensor on WiBro. The required...
Measurements in two different mature forests have been performed, considering a pine forest and a eucalyptus forest. The peer-to-peer scenario used responds to the current needing of radio data for network planning: there exist much information about propagation in vegetation in base station to mobile terminal (master-slave) configurations, but there is a lack in peer-to-peer configurations. The current...
Object localization defines an important application for wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we present a hybrid of dual-modal mobile localization system to support the object tracking in indoor environment. In order to decrease the system cost and simplify the sensor deployment, we implement the localization by the received radio signal strength approach and the unscented Kalman filter (SPKF)...
An important challenge in mobile sensor networks is to enable energy-efficient communication over a diversity of distances while being robust to wireless effects caused by node mobility. In this paper, we argue that the pairing of two complementary radios with heterogeneous range characteristics enables greater range diversity at lower energy cost than a single radio. We make three contributions towards...
Impulse radio ultra wide band (IR-UWB) is a promising technology to address wireless sensor network (WSN) constraints. However, existing network simulation tools do not provide a complete WSN simulation architecture, with the IR-UWB specificities at the physical (PHY) and the medium access control(MAC) layers. In this paper, we propose a WSN simulation architecture based on the IR-UWB technique. At...
The IEEE802.15.4a Task Group for wireless personal area networks (WPAN) is working on an ultra-wideband (UWB) radio standard for the indoor sensor network applications. In 4a Task Group, various modulation and signal sources are being proposed to find the sensor network solutions satisfied with low cost and low power consumption. Among of them, the non-coherent direct sequences (DS) chaotic system...
This paper addresses adaptive channel estimation for time-varying mobile wireless channels with nonstationary statistics. We presents a reduced complexity adaptive channel estimator based on a set membership filtering approach known as the Optimal Bounding Ellipsoid (OBE) algorithm. To exploit time and frequency domain correlation properties of the channel in an efficient low-complexity way, we allow...
This paper explores the attributes, layering models and objective functions in cross layer designs for mobile ad hoc wireless networks by taking all the statistical characteristics and constraints from the physical (PHY) layer, media access control (MAC) layer and network (NET) layer into consideration. This paper reviews the entire network optimization across all the PHY/MAC/NET layers. At the PHY...
In this paper, we propose a cognitive radio-based multi-user resource allocation framework for mobile ad hoc networks using multi-carrier DS CDMA modulation over a frequency-selective fading channel. In particular, given pre-existing communications in the spectrum where the system is operating, in addition to potential narrow-band interference, a channel sensing and estimation mechanism is provided...
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