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Home area networks (HANs) promise to enable sophisticated home automation applications such as smart energy usage and assisted living. However, recent empirical study of HAN reliability in real-world residential environments revealed significant challenges to achieving reliable performance in the face of significant and variable interference from a multitude of coexisting wireless devices. We propose...
Wireless Sensor Networks are event based systems that consists of a collection of autonomous sensor nodes that are spatially distributed and cooperatively monitor physical and environmental conditions. When an event has been detected these sensor nodes become active in transmitting the information and the load becomes heavy, increasing the data traffic and this might lead to congestion that results...
Wake-up radio technology is a means to improve energy efficiency in low-power wireless sensor networks. In such radios, low-power low-complexity designs are considered, often based on narrow-band transmission, simple modulation techniques, noncoherent detection and matched filter receivers. In order to improve the performance of wake-up radios in interference limited scenarios, while keeping the power...
Transmission power control can significantly improve energy-efficiency of wireless sensor network communications. Power consumption models are typically based on dependence of channel attenuation on distance. However, in practice, information on distance is usually not available and the dependence of channel attenuation on distance is not sufficiently accurate. Therefore, we propose more accurate...
To tackle control channel saturation problems, this paper proposes OMA, an asynchronous duty cycle based multi-channel MAC protocol with opportunistic media access for wireless sensor networks. By adopting opportunistic media access, OMA effectively alleviates, if not completely eliminates, control channel saturation problems. More importantly, OMA is fully distributed with no requirements of time...
In this paper, a duty cycle based multi-channel MAC protocol with multiple channel reservation, called M-cube, is proposed to tackle the triple hidden terminal problems. M-cube can make nodes to choose one actually idle channel from all the expected idle channels. Therefore, M-cube can avoid data packet collisions resulted by the triple hidden terminal problems. By minimizing the lower bound of the...
In recent years power control becomes one of research hotspots in wireless sensor networks to reduce total energy consumption in packet interference and improve channel spatial reuse. For the random power control approach, the wireless module of a sensor node picks up one stochastic power value between the minimum and the maximum to send data packet. Connectivity of the random power control approach...
The IEEE802.15.4 is a low-bit-rate wireless communicate standard that enables global inter-connectivity and inter-operability amongst Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) transceivers from different manufacturers. It is also considered as the PHY and MAC technology for Wireless Sensor Networks, which can be widely used for sensing, gathering and operating information in future smart cities. In Jan...
In this paper, a multi-channel MAC protocol, called M&M, with multiple channel reservation is proposed to tackle the channel conflict problem. M&M is fully distributed with no requirements of time synchronization or multi-radio, so it is very practical to implement M&M in resource-constrained sensor nodes. M&M can make nodes to choose one actually idle channel for communications from...
Jamming attacks have been recently studied as wireless security threats disrupting reliable RF communication in a wireless network. By emitting noise-like signals arbitrarily on the shared wireless medium, a jammer can easily disturb the network. Countermeasures such as Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum enable nodes to avoid the jamming attacks by hopping over multiple channels. However, these solutions...
We study the physical layer design of a distributed time-division multiple access (TDMA) protocol for wireless body area networks (WBAN). The distributed TDMA scheme is derived from a bio-inspired algorithm known as Pulse-Coupled Oscillator (PCO), in which each node in the network updates its state based on its knowledge of the neighborhood. ON-OFF ultra wide band (UWB) modulation is used by the sensors...
In this paper indoor wireless Infrared (IR) technology for healthcare monitoring is studied. Monitoring provides a continuous and reliable vital sign measurement to secure patient staying in the hospital. Considering that patient moving is inevitable, we focus on a mobile IR channel based on diffuse propagation. A model of mobile channel is developed through the study of statistical distributions...
The state of the art rate control algorithms for wireless multi-hop networks respond to feedback regarding available capacity in the bandwidth constrained networks. However, the accurate estimation of link capacity is challenging in wireless channel since the interference reduces the link capacity obviously. In, a receiver capacity model is proposed, which associates capacities with nodes instead...
Impulse Radio Ultra-Wideband (IR-UWB) communication system according to the standard IEEE.802.15.4a supporting non-coherent reception is discussed with the focus on the automatic gain controller (AGC). The performance of the transceiver is evaluated under noisy and common multipath channel environments. Simulation results confirm that a simple non-coherent, low power IR-UWB receiver can achieve the...
Anycasting has been proposed recently as an efficient communication method for asynchronous duty-cycled wireless sensor networks. However, the interdependencies between end-to-end communication cost and the anycasting design parameters have not been systematically studied. In this paper, a statistical end-to-end cost model is presented to capture the end-to-end latency and energy consumption of anycasting...
We propose a new energy efficient network structure for maintaining synchronization in access methods based on Synchronous Preamble Sampling. Our scheme limits the number of synchronization messages and increases network capacity through the use of multiple non-interfering virtual channels. It consists in constructing independent clusters based on the Weakly Connected Dominating Set (WCDS) so that...
This paper presents a novel scheme of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission link combined with the time reversal technique, which is recently believed as a promising self-adaptive technique to enhance the wireless transmission due to the special characteristics: spatial focusing and temporal focusing. The proposed time reversal based OFDM system could combat against the multi-path...
In this paper we present a low power temporal-difference image sensor with wireless communication capability designed specifically for imaging sensor networks. The event-based image sensor features a 64 × 64 pixel array and can also report standard analog intensity images. An ultra-wideband (UWB) radio channel allows to transmit digital temporal difference images wirelessly to a receiver with high...
We demonstrate a low power temporal-difference image sensor with wireless communication capability designed specifically for imaging sensor networks. The event-based image sensor features a 64×64 pixel array and can also report standard analog intensity images. An ultra-wide-band (UWB) radio channel allows to transmit digital temporal difference images wirelessly to a receiver with high rates and...
[Summary form only given]. As more and more low-cost high-quality devices appear on the market and new applications emerge every day, short-range wireless personal area networks (WPANs), both low and high-data-rate, are on the horizon. Two major efforts of IEEE are underway to enhance the development of WPANs. One is the specification of IEEE 802.15.3a, also known as ultra wideband (UWB), used in...
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