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This paper gives out a survey on event monitoring in Event-driven wireless sensor networks (EWSNs). In EWSNs, there are mainly two tasks, one is accurate event detection with higher detection probability and lower false-alarm probability. The other is reliable dissemination of the event information after accurate detection. In this paper, we firstly address the design issues for event detection and...
It is a significant application of wireless sensor networks to monitor a mobile target. Multiple sensor nodes cooperate to get an accurate estimation of the signal of the mobile target. Spatial correlation, induced by the spatial distribution of target and sensor nodes, is an inherent phenomenon of wireless sensor networks. This correlation causes redundancy amongst nodes which create redundant information...
In order to achieve higher bandwidth and higher throughput, the carrier aggregation (CA) technique has been adopted by the specifications of 3GPP Release 10 for Long Term Evolution (LTE) advanced systems, where the user equipment (UE) may operate over up to 5 component carriers (CCs). On the other hand, 3GPP specifications also define a mechanism named discontinuous reception (DRX) in order to save...
This paper describes an implementation for monitoring the Quality of Service (QoS) and expecting the Quality of Experience (QoE) of a voice communication in a Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) based telecommunication environment. The resulting QoS parameters are evaluated, the QoE is determined with the E-Model and processed for graphical presentation. With the use of some open-source programming...
Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) offer tremendous benefits for remote health monitoring and real-time patient care. However, the success of such a system would primarily depend on the reliability of the data transmitted by the WBAN. Two aspects of data reliability need to be considered, namely, data accuracy and data freshness (or, recentness of data). Assuming that the sophistication of the sensors...
Use of sensor in data path to predict circuit failure before major errors occur in circuit performance due to reliability issues, especially negative bias temperature instability (NBTI), is common in new scaled CMOS circuits. In this paper, circuit failure prediction by timing degradation is employed to monitor semiconductor aging. For safe operation, we propose on-chip, on-line aging monitoring....
As Great East Japan Earthquake occurred at 11 March 2011 suffered a heavy loss, Japan is one of the most risky country stroke by an earthquake. Therefore, it is a social mission for enterprises in Japan, especially for telecommunication careers like us, to establish disaster recovery plan against a great earthquake. One way to achieve disaster recovery is locating a backup system geographically away...
The K-coverage configuration in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is widely exploited to guarantee the quality of detecting critical events, such as enemy targets, forest fires, or toxic gases. In such applications, many urgent messages should be propagated to the whole network with time constraints. Although many previous studies effectively diminish the well-known broadcast storm problem, which causes...
It is very difficult to identify the location of bottlenecks when there is deterioration of Quality of Service (QoS) because current Internet service is the complicate structure which is provided through a number of ISP. This paper proposes bottleneck detection algorithm which can detect the bottleneck point easily and efficiently even though there is no prior knowledge of the network connection status...
To monitor and diagnose problems on a wide-area network, there is an increasing trend to deploy measurement frameworks such as perfSONAR (Performance focused Service-Oriented Network monitoring Architecture). perfSONAR is a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), where a set of elementary functions for multi-domain network monitoring has been separately defined and provided as services. It has an unprecedented...
As the most popular application in Internet, the performance of web applications are drawing more attention of users and Internet service providers. In order to monitor and analyze user perceived web performance in real network of China, a group of web performance parameters are used which can reflect high layer protocol performance directly impacting user feeling when visiting webpages. A distributed...
Breadcrumb systems (BCS) aid first responders by communicating their physiological parameters to remotely located base stations. However, state-of-the-art research only focuses on deploying breadcrumb systems on the assumption of uncoordinated users, which is inefficient. In this paper, we present the first design, implementation, and evaluation of reliable multiuser breadcrumb systems (MUBCS) which...
This paper introduces four path-based DVFS algorithms for embedded multimedia applications. Application model consists of multiprocessor scheduled task-graphs and input class probability distributions. Design constraints are a soft delay deadline and a minimum completion ratio. The algorithms target four scenarios that correspond to systems with various DVFS and quality of service monitoring capabilities...
This paper introduces a design scheme that improves Energy-Delay Product (EDP) in conventional Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) systems by exploiting timing margins. To achieve this scheme, we designed a high-speed Critical Path Monitor composed of several Critical Path Replicas, a Timing Checker, and a Toggle Flip-Flop. The replicas are implemented based on our proposed algorithm, which considers the...
Some diseases, such as hypertension, require a close control of the patient's blood pressure. This is even more critical when that patient is going through — or has just underwent — a surgical procedure In such situations, reducing blood pressure to normal levels is of paramount importance. Usually, this demanding and time consuming monitoring is done manually by clinical personnel and are subject...
The field of ballistocardiography seems to be enjoying a recent resurgence, most notably through the development of novel technologies and signal processing methods for measurement and analysis. After the method almost vanished in the late 80's and 90's, it is reasonable to wonder what is different this time, and if the technique has now more chances of becoming what its pioneer always wanted — a...
The analysis of human motion data is interesting for the purpose of activity recognition or emergency event detection, especially in the case of elderly or disabled people living independently in their homes. Several techniques have been proposed for identifying such distress situations using either motion, audio or video sensors on the monitored subject (wearable sensors) or the surrounding environment...
Recent advancements in wireless communications technologies bring us one step closer to provide reliable Telecare services as an alternative to patients staying in a hospital mainly for monitoring purposes. In this research we investigate the efficiency of IEEE 802.15.4 in a simple scenario where a patient is being monitored using an ECG and a blood analysis module. This approach binds well with assisted...
Over the last decade, significant progress has been made in the development of wearable sensor systems for continuous health monitoring in the home and community settings. One of the main areas of application for these wearable sensor systems is in detecting emergency events such as falls. Wearable sensors like accelerometers are increasingly being used to monitor daily activities of individuals at...
In this paper, an adaptive and robust monitoring approach for Wireless Sensor/Actuator Network (WSAN) environments is proposed. The main problem under investigation is the monitoring of the status of WSAN devices in an environment where the clocks of the devices are not well synchronized (asynchronous communication). The main contribution is the proposed adaptive virtual timer, for the server node,...
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