Universidad del Norte, Colombia

About: Universidad del Norte, Colombia is a education organization based out in Barranquilla, Colombia. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Context (language use). The organization has 3562 authors who have published 4355 publications receiving 37861 citations. The organization is also known as: University of the North, Colombia & Uninorte.

A3Cov: A new topology construction protocol for connected area coverage in WSN

Abstract: Topology control is a well-known strategy to save energy and extend the lifetime of wireless sensor networks. It consists of topology construction and topology maintenance algorithms. While topology construction builds a reduced topology, topology maintenance changes the reduced topology when the current one is no longer optimal. The selection of an appropriate topology maintenance technique is rarely included in the evaluation of topology control solutions, even though the impact of such decision in the lifetime of the network (in terms of number of nodes or coverage) has been shown before. This paper makes two important contributions. First, it introduces a new topology construction algorithm called A3Cov, based on the A3 protocol, which increases the coverage ratio considerably compared to the original version. Second, the A3Cov protocol is evaluated jointly with four topology maintenance techniques to determine the influence of the different maintenance schemes on the area coverage and the network lifetime. The results show that the dynamic global topology maintenance techniques with A3Cov provide the best coverage and network lifetime for a substantially longer period of time compared to the ACOS protocol.

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Knowledge in the Colombian Caribbean: Progress and Challenges

Abstract: The Colombian Caribbean, one of the most biodiverse regions in the world, is facing great challenges in biodiversity conservation due to accelerated ecosystem transformations and the territorial pl...

Estudio de prevalencia de dificultades de lectura en niños escolarizados de 7 años de Barranquilla (Colombia)

Abstract: This article shows research preliminary results, in which the prevalence level of reading disabilities is established in 7-year old children belonging to 4 middle class private non-bilingual schools in the district of Barranquilla. The assessment tools used for this study were CEPA, Abbreviated WISC-R and ENI (Neuropsychological Children Evaluation). The reading disabilities prevalence level was determined to be, in this study, of 3.32%