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Wireless sensor networks: a survey

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The concept of sensor networks which has been made viable by the convergence of micro-electro-mechanical systems technology, wireless communications and digital electronics is described.
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This article is published in Computer Networks.The article was published on 2002-03-15. It has received 17936 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Key distribution in wireless sensor networks & Wireless sensor network.

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Integrated clustering and routing protocol for wireless sensor networks using Cuckoo and Harmony Search based metaheuristic techniques

TL;DR: An improved cuckoo search-based energy balanced node clustering protocol which uses a novel objective function for uniform distribution of cluster heads is proposed which shows significant improvement over the state-of-art protocols.

Wireless Sensor Networking for "Hot" Applications: Effects of Temperature on Signal Strength, Data Collection and Localization

TL;DR: A linear model for the combined reduction of the transmit power and receiver sensitivity is presented, which suggests significant impact on the transmission range and network services.
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A survey of cryptographic primitives and implementations for hardware-constrained sensor network nodes

TL;DR: The objective in this paper is to survey how the existing research-based and commercial-based sensor nodes are suitable for this purpose, analyzing how the hardware can influence the provision of the primitives and how software implementations tackles the task of implementing instances of those primitives.
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On-the-Fly calibration of low-cost gas sensors

TL;DR: This paper studies three calibration algorithms that exploit co-located sensor measurements to enhance sensor calibration and consequently the quality of the pollution measurements on-the-fly and validates all three algorithms with real ozone pollution measurements carried out in an urban setting.
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Collaborative Mobile Charging

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a collaborative mobile charging paradigm, where mobile chargers are allowed to intentionally transfer energy between themselves to improve the energy efficiency of the WSNs, and proposed a scheduling algorithm, PushWait, which is proven to be optimal and can cover a one-dimensional WSN.
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Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice

TL;DR: WireWireless Communications: Principles and Practice, Second Edition is the definitive modern text for wireless communications technology and system design as discussed by the authors, which covers the fundamental issues impacting all wireless networks and reviews virtually every important new wireless standard and technological development, offering especially comprehensive coverage of the 3G systems and wireless local area networks (WLANs).
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Energy-efficient communication protocol for wireless microsensor networks

TL;DR: The Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) as mentioned in this paper is a clustering-based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster based station (cluster-heads) to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network.

Energy-efficient communication protocols for wireless microsensor networks

TL;DR: LEACH (Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy), a clustering-based protocol that utilizes randomized rotation of local cluster based station (cluster-heads) to evenly distribute the energy load among the sensors in the network, is proposed.
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Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks

TL;DR: This paper explores and evaluates the use of directed diffusion for a simple remote-surveillance sensor network and its implications for sensing, communication and computation.
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The Cricket location-support system

TL;DR: The randomized algorithm used by beacons to transmit information, the use of concurrent radio and ultrasonic signals to infer distance, the listener inference algorithms to overcome multipath and interference, and practical beacon configuration and positioning techniques that improve accuracy are described.
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