Journal ArticleDOI
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
TLDR
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.About:
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.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Event Based State Estimation With Time Synchronous Updates
Joris Sijs,Mircea Lazar +1 more
TL;DR: A general mathematical description of event sampling is proposed and a state estimator with a hybrid update is developed that can successfully cope with event based measurements and attains an asymptotically bounded error-covariance matrix.
Journal ArticleDOI
Data aggregation and routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Optimal and heuristic algorithms
TL;DR: This paper presents Grid-based Routing and Aggregator Selection Scheme (GRASS), a scheme for WSNs that can achieve low energy dissipation and low latency without sacrificing quality, and shows that, when compared to other schemes, GRASS improves system lifetime with acceptable levels of latency in data aggregation and without sacrificing data quality.
Journal ArticleDOI
An Improved Routing Algorithm Based on Ant Colony Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks
TL;DR: Simulation results show that new ant algorithm can effectively save the energy of nodes and prolong the network lifetime.
Journal ArticleDOI
Wireless Sensor Network Design for Transmission Line Monitoring, Metering, and Controlling: Introducing Broadband over Power Lines-Enhanced Network Model (BPLeNM)
TL;DR: The main conclusion of this paper is that BPLeNM defines a powerful, convenient, and schedulable network model for today's and future’s overhead HV grids in the smart grid (SG) landscape.
Journal ArticleDOI
Wireless Architectures for Heterogeneous Sensing in Smart Home Applications: Concepts and Real Implementation
TL;DR: The proposed architecture is based also on existing wireless devices and exploits, in an opportunistic way, the characteristics of wireless signals to estimate the presence, the movements, and the behaviors of inhabitants, reducing the system complexity and costs.
References
More filters
Book
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).
Proceedings ArticleDOI
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.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
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.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
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.