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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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Tracking the Evolution of the Internet of Things Concept Across Different Application Domains

TL;DR: Recent changes in the Internet of Things have been relatively moderated, and its variations on application domains are clearly differentiated, with data and data technologies playing an important role in the IoT landscape.
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Sensor Systems Based on FPGAs and Their Applications: A Survey

TL;DR: It is shown that architectures based on the combination of microcontrollers and FPGA can play a key role in the future of sensor networks, in fields where processing capabilities such as strong cryptography, self-testing and data compression are paramount.
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An Affinity Propagation-Based Self-Adaptive Clustering Method for Wireless Sensor Networks.

TL;DR: The proposed algorithm outperforms some latest work such as the unequal cluster-based routing scheme for multi-level heterogeneous WSN, the low-energy adaptive clustering hierarchy using affinity propagation (LEACH-AP) algorithm, and the energy degree distance unequal clustering (EDDUCA) algorithm.
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RSSI based indoor and outdoor distance estimation for localization in WSN

TL;DR: An RSSI model that estimates the distance between sensor nodes in WSNs is presented and shows that there is less error in distance estimation in an outdoor environment compared to indoor environment.
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The Impact of Channel Randomness on Coverage and Connectivity of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

TL;DR: An analytical procedure is presented for the computation of the node isolation probability and coverage in an ad hoc network in the presence of channel randomness, with applications to shadowing and fading phenomena to obtain an estimate of the connectivity features for very dense networks.
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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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