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ACO Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: The recent popularity of applications based on wireless sensor networks provides a strong motivation for pushing its technological limits. The authors feel that sensor networks can benefit from some of nature's robust solutions. In this work the authors evaluate the applicability of pheromone based foraging techniques, found in many ants,...; Tags: Network, Harvard University, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Productivity, Networking; White papers 2008-01-15
Arbutus: Network-Layer Load Balancing for Wireless Sensor Networks: The hot spot problem is a typical byproduct of the many-to-one traffic pattern that characterizes most wireless sensor networks: the nodes with the best channel to the sink are overloaded with traffic from the rest of the network and experience a faster energy depletion rate than their peers. Routing protocols...; Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Routing Protocol, Wireless, University Of Notre Dame, Hot Spot Problem, Networking; White papers 2008-01-01
Highly-Resilient, Energy-Efficient Multipath Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Previously proposed sensor network data dissemination schemes require periodic low-rate flooding of data in order to allow recovery from failure. The paper considers constructing two kinds of multipaths to enable energy efficient recovery from failure of the shortest path between source and sink. Disjoint multipath has been studied in the...; Tags: Recovery, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Multipath, Wireless; White papers 2008-01-01
Multihop Clustering Algorithm for Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks.: The paper presents a new cluster based routing algorithm that exploits the redundancy properties of the sensor networks in order to address the traditional problem of load balancing and energy efficiency in the WSNs. The algorithm makes use of the nodes in a sensor network of which area coverage is...; Tags: Algorithm, Network, Load Balancing, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, University Of Bradford, Engineering; White papers 2007-08-22
Hardware Assisted Compression in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Wireless Sensor Network WSN is comprised of resource constained devices called motes. Motes are battery operated and must conserve as much power as possible. Power usage for each mote is made up of processing data, sensing the surroundings, and sending and receiving packets. The bulk of power usage for...; Tags: Packet, Network, Sensor, Hardware, University Of California, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2007-05-27

Algorithm/Architecture Co-Exploration for Designing Energy Efficient Wireless Channel Estimator: A Wireless Sensor Network WSN is comprised of motes which are resource constraint devices. Motes are battery operated and must conserve as much power as possible. Power usage for each mote is made up of processing data, sensing the surroundings, and sending and receiving packets. This paper proposes a solution...; Tags: Hardware, University Of California, Wireless, Wireless Sensor Network; White papers 2007-04-29
Optimal Cluster Association in Two-Tiered Wireless Sensor Networks: This paper studies the two-tiered Wireless Sensor Network WSN architecture and proposes the optimal cluster association algorithm for it to maximize the overall network lifetime. A two-tiered WSN is formed by number of small Sensor Nodes SNs, powerful Application Nodes ANs, and Base-Stations (BSs, or gateways). SNs capture, encode, and...; Tags: Network, Washington State University, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Networking; White papers 2007-04-13
Towards Intrusion Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks: The work discussed in this paper studies the problem of Intrusion Detection which is sensor networks and propose a lightweight scheme that can be applied to such networks. Its basic characteristic is that nodes monitor their neighborhood and collaborate with their nearest neighbors to bring the network back to its...; Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, University Of Mannheim, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Networking, Security; White papers 2007-02-27
A ring of robots to fight fires: Computer scientists at the Washington University in St. Louis WUSTL have developed a new kind of software to monitor wireless sensor networks. For example, their software agents can help robots to navigate through simulated fires. Their real innovation is that their software agents are able to clone themselves, creating a...; Tags: agent, Robotics, Computers &, Internet, Wireless &, Telecom, Engineering &, Innovation, WUSTL; Blog posts 2006-11-14
Applying Intrusion Detection Systems to Wireless Sensor Networks: The research of Intrusion Detection Systems IDS is a mature area in wired networks, and has also attracted many attentions in wireless ad hoc networks recently. Nevertheless, there is no previous work reported in the literature about IDS architectures in wireless sensor networks. This paper discusses the general guidelines for...; Tags: Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Intrusion Detection System, Wireless, Intrusion Detection, Network Security, Security, Networking; White papers 2006-07-24
An Energy-Aware Dynamic Clustering Algorithm for Load Balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Energy efficient dynamic clustering offers a flexible paradigm to reconfigure the network in order to maximise network's life-time in resource constrained ad hoc sensor networks. The load profiles of Parent Nodes PNs can be used to define its current state as well as to predict potential failures caused by energy...; Tags: Algorithm, Aware, Network, Load Balancing, Clustering, Wireless Sensor Network, Wireless, Engineering, Networking; White papers 2006-06-01
MMSN: Multi-Frequency Media Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks: Multi-frequency media access control has been well understood in general wireless ad hoc networks, while in wireless sensor networks, researchers still focus on single frequency solutions. In wireless sensor networks, each device is typically equipped with a single radio transceiver and applications adopt much smaller packet sizes compared to those...; Tags: MAC, Network, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2005-12-14
A Quantitative Survivability Evaluation Model for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Wireless Sensor Network WSN is vulnerable to security attacks due to the broadcast nature of transmission and the limited computation and communication capabilities of the sensor nodes. Many key agreement schemes are developed to enable encryption and authentication among sensor nodes to protect confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the...; Tags: Network, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless; White papers 2005-11-30
On Base Station Selection for Anycast Flow Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks: Energy constraints have had a significant impact on the design and operation of wireless sensor networks. This paper investigates base station selection or anycast problem in wireless sensor networks. A wireless sensor network having multiple base stations data sink nodes is considered where each source node must send all its...; Tags: Base Station, Network, Sensor, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; White papers 2005-11-21
53% of industrial users consider deploying wireless sensor network in 2006: Over 53% of 200 industrial end-users and systems integrators are considering deploying a wireless sensor network over 2006, according to B&B Electronics and Sensicast Systems. 73% of respondents are researching wireless networks for use in these environments, compared to 64% of respondents surveyed in January 2005.; Tags: wireless sensor network, wireless, network; Blog posts 2005-10-12
Mobile Wireless RSA Overlay Network as Critical Infrastructure for National Security: This paper presents an analysis on the use of wireless sensor networks for safeguarding the critical infrastructures and the management of a disaster for first response emergency scenarios. This analysis is based on a qualitative comparison of the features of a wireless sensor network to a list of requirements defined...; Tags: Security, RSA Security Inc., Mobile, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking; White papers 2005-03-30

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