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Novel Techniques for Analysis and Design of Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Sensor Networks

  2. This paper deals with a novel MAC layer protocol, namely, directive synchronous transmission asynchronous reception (D-STAR) able to space-time synchronize a wireless sensor network (WSN). To this end, D-STAR ...

    Authors: Gianfranco Manes, Romano Fantacci, Francesco Chiti, Michele Ciabatti, Giovanni Collodi, Davide Di Palma, Ilaria Nelli and Antonio Manes
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:037910
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  3. Owing to numerous potential applications, wireless sensor networks have been attracting significant research effort recently. The critical challenge that wireless sensor networks often face is to sustain long-...

    Authors: Jun Lu, Jinsu Wang and Tatsuya Suda
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:034758
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  4. Many works have been devoted to connectivity of ad hoc networks. This is an important feature for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to provide the nodes with the capability of communicating with one or several sink...

    Authors: Jean-Marie Gorce, Ruifeng Zhang and Hervé Parvery
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:019196
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  5. Sink mobility has attracted much research interest in recent years because it can improve network performance such as energy efficiency and throughput. An energy-unconscious moving strategy is potentially harm...

    Authors: Yanzhong Bi, Limin Sun, Jian Ma, Na Li, Imran Ali Khan and Canfeng Chen
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:064574
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  6. In wireless sensor networks, distributed timing synchronization based on pulse-coupled oscillators at the physical layer is currently being investigated as an interesting alternative to packet synchronization....

    Authors: O. Simeone and U. Spagnolini
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:057054
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  7. We analyze the lifetime of clustered sensor networks with decentralized binary detection under a physical layer quality-of-service (QoS) constraint, given by the maximum tolerable probability of decision error at...

    Authors: Gianluigi Ferrari and Marco Martalò
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:031809
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  8. Minimizing the communication overhead is always a hot topic in wireless sensor networks. In a multirate query system, data sources disseminate the data streams to users at the frequency they request. However, ...

    Authors: Yingwen Chen, Ming Xu, Huai-min Wang, Hong Va Leong, Jiannong Cao, Keith C. C. Chan and Alvin T. S. Chan
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:048984
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  9. A critical issue in battery-powered sensor networks is to construct energy efficient virtual backbones for network routing. Recent study in battery technology reveals that batteries tend to discharge more powe...

    Authors: Chi Ma, Yuanyuan Yang and Zhenghao Zhang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:040154
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  10. We consider the problem of minimizing transmission energy in wireless sensor networks by taking into account that every sensor may require a different bit rate and reliability according to its particular appli...

    Authors: J. Joaquín Escudero Garzás, Carlos Bousoño Calzón and Ana García Armada
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:041401
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  11. We study the load balancing problem in a dense wireless multihop network, where a typical path consists of a large number of hops, that is, the spatial scales of a typical distance between source and destinati...

    Authors: Esa Hyytiä and Jorma Virtamo
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:016932
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  12. Sensor networks require a simple and efficient medium access control policy achieving high system throughput with no or limited control overhead in order to increase the network lifetime by minimizing the energy ...

    Authors: Konstantinos Oikonomou and Ioannis Stavrakakis
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2007 2007:064238
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