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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.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
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Survey on clustering in heterogeneous and homogeneous wireless sensor networks
Ali Shokouhi Rostami,Marzieh Badkoobe,Farahnaz Mohanna,Hengameh Keshavarz,Ali Asghar Rahmani Hosseinabadi,Arun Kumar Sangaiah +5 more
TL;DR: Homogenous and heterogeneous methods of clustering are specifically investigated and compared to each other to demonstrate advantages and disadvantages of them in wireless sensor networks.
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Design of a Wireless Sensor Network for Long-term, In-Situ Monitoring of an Aqueous Environment
TL;DR: An aqueous sensor network is described consisting of an array of sensor nodes that can be randomly distributed throughout a lake or drinking water reservoir, allowing long-term, wide area, in situ multi-parameter monitoring.
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Performance of ZigBee-Based wireless sensor nodes for real-time monitoring of fruit logistics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the potential of wireless sensor technology for monitoring fruit storage and transport conditions, focusing in particular on ZigBee technology with special regard to two different commercial modules (Xbow and Xbee).
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Grand challenges
TL;DR: This column will concentrate on some of the problems/solutions from a recent paper on the "Grand Challenges" for Computing Education that might be answered via education research.
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The Lighthouse Location System for Smart Dust
TL;DR: This paper presents and analyse the Lighthouse location systems, a novel laser-based location system for Smart Dust, which allows tiny dust nodes to autonomously estimate their location with high accuracy without additional infrastructure components besides a modified base station device.
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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.