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Robust And Efficient Localization Techniques For Cellular And Wireless Sensor Networks, Haseebulla M. Khan
Robust And Efficient Localization Techniques For Cellular And Wireless Sensor Networks, Haseebulla M. Khan
Computer Science Theses & Dissertations
Localization in wireless networks refers to a collection of tasks that, collectively, determines the location of a mobile user, striving to hide the effects of mobility from the user and/or application. Localization has become an important issue and has drawn considerable attention, as many applications including E-911, cargo tracking, locating patients, location-sensitive billing, etc., require knowledge of the location of user/objects. It was realized, quite a while back, that extending emergency 911-like services (E-911) to continually growing mobile population is one of the extremely important localization applications. The bulk of the proposed solutions to emergency location management in wireless environments …
Achieving Minimum Coverage Breach Under Bandwidth Constraints In Wireless Sensor Networks, Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng, Lu Ruan, Weili Wu
Achieving Minimum Coverage Breach Under Bandwidth Constraints In Wireless Sensor Networks, Maggie Xiaoyan Cheng, Lu Ruan, Weili Wu
Computer Science Faculty Research & Creative Works
This paper addresses the coverage breach problem in wireless sensor networks with limited bandwidths. In wireless sensor networks, sensor nodes are powered by batteries. To make efficient use of battery energy is critical to sensor network lifetimes. When targets are redundantly covered by multiple sensors, especially in stochastically deployed sensor networks, it is possible to save battery energy by organizing sensors into mutually exclusive subsets and alternatively activating only one subset at any time. Active nodes are responsible for sensing, computing and communicating. While the coverage of each subset is an important metric for sensor organization, the size of each …
Decision Fusion Rules In Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks, Ying Lin, Biao Chen, Pramod K. Varshney
Decision Fusion Rules In Multi-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks, Ying Lin, Biao Chen, Pramod K. Varshney
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science - All Scholarship
We consider in this paper the decision fusion problem for a wireless sensor network (WSN) operating in a fading environment. In particular, we develop channel-aware decision fusion rules for a resource constrained WSN where decisions from local sensors may go through multi-hop transmission to reach a fusion center. Each relay node employs a binary relay scheme whereby the relay output is inferred from the channel impaired observation received from its source node. This estimated binary decision is subsequently transmitted to the next node until it reaches the fusion center. Under a flat fading channel model, we derive the optimum fusion …
Introduction: Data Communication And Topology Algorithms For Sensor Networks, Stephan Olariu, David Simplot-Ryl, Ivan Stojmenovic
Introduction: Data Communication And Topology Algorithms For Sensor Networks, Stephan Olariu, David Simplot-Ryl, Ivan Stojmenovic
Computer Science Faculty Publications
(First paragraph) We are very proud and honored to have been entrusted to be Guest Editors for this special issue. Papers were sought to comprehensively cover the algorithmic issues in the “hot” area of sensor networking. The concentration was on network layer problems, which can be divided into two groups: data communication problems and topology control problems. We wish to briefly introduce the five papers appearing in this special issue. They cover specific problems such as time division for reduced collision, fault tolerant clustering, self-stabilizing graph optimization algorithms, key pre-distribution for secure communication, and distributed storage based on spanning trees …
Simulation Study Of Routing Protocols In Wireless Sensor Networks, Vatsalya Kunchakarra
Simulation Study Of Routing Protocols In Wireless Sensor Networks, Vatsalya Kunchakarra
LSU Master's Theses
Wireless sensor networks, a distributed network of sensor nodes perform critical tasks in many application areas such as target tracking in military applications, detection of catastrophic events, environment monitoring, health applications etc. The routing protocols developed for these distributed sensor networks need to be energy efficient and scalable. To create a better understanding of the performance of various routing protocols proposed it is very important to perform a detailed analysis of them. Network simulators enable us to study the performance and behavior of these protocols on various network topologies. Many Sensor Network frameworks were developed to explore both the networking …
Energy-Rate Based Mac Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks And Key Pre-Distribution Schemes, Ramaraju Kalidindi
Energy-Rate Based Mac Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks And Key Pre-Distribution Schemes, Ramaraju Kalidindi
LSU Master's Theses
Sensor networks are typically unattended because of their deployment in hazardous, hostile or remote environments. This makes the problem of conserving energy at individual sensor nodes challenging. S-MAC and PAMAS are two MAC protocols which periodically put nodes (selected at random) to sleep in order to achieve energy savings. Unlike these protocols, we propose an approach in which node duty cycles (i.e sleep and wake schedules) are based on their criticality. A distributed algorithm is used to find sets of winners and losers, who are then assigned appropriate slots in our TDMA based MAC protocol. We introduce the concept of …
Energy-Efficient Self-Organization Protocols For Sensor Networks, Qingwen Xu
Energy-Efficient Self-Organization Protocols For Sensor Networks, Qingwen Xu
Computer Science Theses & Dissertations
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN, for short) consists of a large number of very small sensor devices deployed in an area of interest for gathering and delivery information. The fundamental goal of a WSN is to produce, over an extended period of time, global information from local data obtained by individual sensors. The WSN technology will have a significant impact on a wide array of applications on the efficiency of many civilian and military applications including combat field surveillance, intrusion detection, disaster management among many others. The basic management problem in the WSN is to balance the utility of the …