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Underwater acoustic sensor networks are characterized by limited transmit power and bandwidth, and a harsh communication environment. Different techniques for reliable communication in underwater networks have been studied in the literature at different layers of the network protocol stack. Among these, the use of fountain codes as a way for improving the quality of the communication over a highly...
One of the main issues for a smart city is the data aggregation from various data sources to the central control units for storage and analysis. While the core networks are winding up progressively over-burden, the cost of keeping up and extending the networks to oblige the big data of these smart cities stays high. Moreover, the utilization of these systems continues expanding the energy consumptions...
The traditional world has transformed into a digital society where almost anything can be accessed from anywhere. However, this digital society is responsible for an explosive growth of high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety information assets, with high demand for “Big Data”. A Software Defined Connectivity (SDC) is an emerging paradigm, which promises to simplify network management, to provide...
A large number of WSN applications with bursty traffic have emerged in the recent past such as rare event detection and forest fire monitoring. Bursty traffic in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offers various challenges in terms of reliability and latency. Unlike periodic monitoring, energy consumption is far more challenging to deal with in WSN applications with bursty traffic due to long periods...
Fundamental differences between underwater acoustic propagation and terrestrial radio propagation impose the design of new networking protocols. In this paper, a multichannel MAC protocol, MC-UWMAC, especially designed for underwater acoustic sensor networks, is proposed and evaluated. MC-UWMAC is a low power MAC protocol operating on multichannel using a single slotted control channel and multiple...
Due to the low speed of underwater acoustic propagation and the adverse energy supply of underwater facility, it is a challenging task to reduce the end-to-end delay and the system energy consumption. In this paper, an improved scheme is proposed based on multi-hop coordinated transmission for underwater acoustic cooperative networks. The data packets are divided into parity groups and then transferred,...
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard does not allow to make dynamic adjustments to the inactive portion of the superframe, thus affecting the duty cycles of the coordinator and all the devices attached to it. Prior works in this direction are either based on superframe occupation ratio or buffer occupancy/queue length of the transmitting nodes. In this paper, we present the respective limitations of both these...
Multilayer Clustered Designing Algorithm is exploited to present MCDA - Hot Spot algorithm; a technique to increase the network throughput by alleviating the impact of hotspot issue on network lifetime. The network nodes in the hot spot region are in a flat layer form in contrast to rest of the network nodes that are grouped into clusters. This design substantially helps in achieving goal above. This...
This paper introduces a study of the fog computing suitability assessment as a solution for the increasing demand of the IoT devices. In particular, we focus on the energy consumption and the Quality of Service (QoS) as two important metrics of the performance of the fog. Therefore, we present a modeling of these two metrics in the fog. Then, we express the problem as constrained optimization and...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained significant attention due to their wide range of applications. In these networks, the sensor nodes collect different types of data from the surrounding environment. There are many applications that require sensor node to transmit urgent data packets faster than normal data packets. In the literature, most of the available medium access control (MAC) protocols...
This paper considers the problem of joining a network of constrained IoT devices. We propose to take advantage of Singer Cyclic Difference Sets (S-CDS) for a joining scheme that results in low duty cycles and apply the proposed scheme to the joining problem in 802.15.4e TSCH networks. S-CDS distributes the active periods of nodes over time so that a joining node does not suffer from long scanning...
In a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), there are a large number of nodes whose power supply and computational capability are limited. The nodes in a wireless sensor network can be fixed or move randomly. Thus in these networks, to forward a data packet from one node to another needs to use specific strategies with very different characteristics. Accordingly the data forwarding strategy among nodes plays...
Cache tuning has been widely studied in CPUs, and shown to achieve substantial energy savings, with minimal performance degradations. However, cache tuning has yet to be explored in General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPU), which have emerged as efficient alternatives for general purpose high-performance computing. In this paper, we explore autonomic cache tuning for GPGPUs, where the cache...
A dynamic bias pre-amplifier based latch type comparator is designed in a 65nm CMOS process. Its performance is compared with the double-tail latch-type comparator fabricated on the same chip in terms of energy consumption, input referred noise and speed. Measurements demonstrate that the proposed dynamic bias pre-amplifier based comparator consumes 2.8 times less energy per comparator operation with...
Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network (UASNs) are deployed in sea for exploration of underwater hidden natural resources. There are certain research issues regarding routing and MAC protocol in the deployment of UASNs. The main challenges may be inefficient network life time, low throughput, high propagation delay and unbalance energy consumption. In order to improve the results of the basic parameters...
The paper presents system level simulation results on future base station energy saving using a time-triggered sleep model. The energy efficiency of future base station is compared in macro cellular network against a comparable baseline without usage of sleep modes. Furthermore, results for corresponding 4G case are shown using a restricted set of sleep modes supported by 4G networks. The paper also...
Heterogeneous multicores provide alternative core types and potentially multiple voltage-frequency levels to execute workloads more efficiently. One fundamental obstacle for capitalizing their potential performance and energy gains is identifying the most appropriate configuration (core type and voltage-frequency pair) for executing the computations at hand. In this paper, we analyze an ARM big.LITTLE...
Fog computing is an interesting paradigm which has drawn attention recently, based on the presence of several Fog Nodes (FNs) able to interact among each other for sharing their tasks. To boost the interactions among FNs, an Energy-Aware Offloading Clustering Approach (EAOCA) is proposed for raising the network fairness in terms of FNs' energy level. In each cluster, there is a Fog Cluster Head (FCH)...
LTE-M, which is an abbreviated version of LTE-MTC(Machine Type Communication) can be said to have a variety of applications, including a large number of heterogeneous interconnection of large-scale network equipment. One of the most prominent problems is that the machines may have a large amount of access requests in a short time, which can easily lead to network congestion. At present, the contention-based...
Reducing power and energy consumption in large scale networks remains a challenging problem. The increasing need to support multimedia applications in future Internets further compound this problem. This paper addresses a key issue of how to efficiently assign per-router flow delays and set per-processor execution speeds, along a routing path, to jointly minimize energy consumption and meet end-to-end...
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