Browsing by Subject "Sensor networks"
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Node clustering in wireless sensor networks by considering structural characteristics of the network graph
(2007)The deployment of wireless sensor networks in many application areas, e.g., aggregation services, requires self-organization of the network nodes into clusters. Quite a lot of node clustering techniques have appeared in ... -
On the optimal processor assignment for computing the steady state kalman filter in parallel and distributed systems
(2017)Kalman filters have many practical applications in various fields such as sensor networks, image and video processing. Therefore, their fast computation is of paramount importance. In this paper distributed implementations ... -
Optimal experimental design for structural health monitoring applications
(2008)Successful structural health monitoring and condition assessment depends to a large extent on the sensor and actuator networks place on the structure as well as the excitation characteristics. An optimal experimental design ... -
Optimal jamming attack strategies and network defense policies in wireless sensor networks
(2010)We consider a scenario where a sophisticated jammer jams an area in which a single-channel random-access-based wireless sensor network operates. The jammer controls the probability of jamming and the transmission range in ... -
Optimization algorithms for system integration
(2008)This work outlines the optimization algorithms involved in integrating system analysis and measured data collected from a network of sensors. The integration is required for structural health monitoring problems arising ... -
Outage Probability of a Multisensor Mixed UOWC-FSO Setup
(2019)The performance of a network consisting of several underwater sensors communicating with a terrestrial destination is studied for the first time in terms of the outage probability. In the scenario under consideration, K ... -
Output-only fatigue prediction of uncertain steel structures
(2016)A fatigue estimation framework for steel structures is proposed in this study, under realistic assump-tions on the sensor network capacity and under the premise of uncertainty in the structural information available ... -
An overview of body sensor networks in enabling perva-sive healthcare and assistive environments
(2010)The use of sensor networks for healthcare, well-being, and work-ing in extreme environments has long roots in the engineering sector in medicine and biology community. With the growing needs in ubiquitous communications ... -
Packetostatics: Deployment of massively dense sensor networks as an electrostatics problem
(2005)We investigate the spatial distribution of wireless nodes that can transport a given volume of traffic in a sensor network, while requiring the minimum number of wireless nodes. The traffic is created at a spatially ... -
Post-processing in wireless sensor networks: Benchmarking sensor trace files
(2010)Wireless sensor network research usually focuses on the reliable and efficient collection of data. Here, we address the next step in the traces lifetime: we aim at investigating and evaluating, by qualitative and quantitative ... -
Query sensitive storage for wireless sensor networks
(2009)Storage management in wireless sensor networks is an area that has started to attract significant attention, and several methods have been proposed, such as Local Storage (LS), Data-Centric Storage (DCS) and more recently ... -
Topology control algorithms for wireless sensor networks: A critical survey
(2010)In a densely deployed wireless sensor network, a single node has many neighbouring nodes with which direct communication would be possible when using sufficiently large transmission power. This is, however, not beneficial; ... -
Topology optimization in wireless sensor networks for precision agriculture applications
(2007)In this paper a new way to build a wireless sensor network is proposed, which is based on measuring the field's electrical conductivity, staying away from the classic network grid implementation. Furthermore it is explained ... -
Wireless sensor networks: Business models and market issues
(2007)Networks of sensors are continuously gaining ground in all types of industry applications and are believed to be evolving in a way similar to the evolution of the first interconnected computer systems into what we call ...