Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Wireless Sensor Network Systems
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Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:439890
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A Novel Secure Localization Approach in Wireless Sensor Networks
Recent advances in wireless networking technologies, along with ubiquitous sensing and computing, have brought significant convenience for location-based services. The localization issue in wireless sensor net...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:981280 -
A Study on Event-Driven TDMA Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
MAC protocol controls the activity of wireless radio of sensor nodes directly so that it is the major consumer of sensor energy and the energy efficiency of MAC protocol makes a strong impact on the network pe...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:169132 -
Design and Analysis of an Energy-Saving Distributed MAC Mechanism for Wireless Body Sensor Networks
The fact that the IEEE 802.15.4 MAC does not fully satisfy the strict wireless body sensor network (BSN) requirements in healthcare systems highlights the need for the design and analysis of new scalable MAC s...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:571407 -
Impact of LQI-Based Routing Metrics on the Performance of a One-to-One Routing Protocol for IEEE 802.15.4 Multihop Networks
The quality of an IEEE 802.15.4 link can be estimated on the basis of the Link Quality Indication (LQI), which is a parameter offered by the IEEE 802.15.4 physical layer. The LQI has been recommended by organi...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:205407 -
A Novel Real-Time Coal Miner Localization and Tracking System Based on Self-Organized Sensor Networks
With the development of information technology, we envision that the key of improving coal mine safety is how to get real-time positions of miners. In this paper, we propose a prototype system for real-time co...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:142092 -
Design and Implementation of a Generic Energy-Harvesting Framework Applied to the Evaluation of a Large-Scale Electronic Shelf-Labeling Wireless Sensor Network
Most wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of battery-powered nodes and are limited to hundreds of nodes. Battery replacement is a very costly operation and a key factor in limiting successful large-scale de...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:343690 -
A Fast Network Configuration Algorithm for TDMA Wireless Sensor Networks
The deployment of large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) presents various challenges whose solution requires the design and development of power-and-time efficient protocols. In this context many proposal...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:513527 -
Distributed KDC-Based Random Pairwise Key Establishment in Wireless Sensor Networks
Key management is a core mechanism to provide secure and reliable communications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In large-scale WSNs, due to the resource constraint on sensor nodes, it is still an extremel...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:808797 -
A Random Ant-Like Unicast Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks and Performance Evaluation
A random ant-like unicast routing (RAUR) protocol is proposed for wireless ad hoc sensor networks. In RAUR, when a source node needs to find a routing path to a destination, it does not flood the network. Inst...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:648235 -
Modelling and Implementation of QoS in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Multiconstrained Traffic Engineering Model
This paper revisits the problem of Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning to assess the relevance of using multipath routing to improve the reliability and packet delivery in wireless sensor networks while main...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:468737 -
A High-Accuracy Nonintrusive Networking Testbed for Wireless Sensor Networks
It becomes increasingly important to obtain the accurate and spontaneous runtime network behavior for further studies on wireless sensor networks. However, the existing testbeds cannot appropriately match such...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:642531 -
Ambient Data Collection with Wireless Sensor Networks
One of the most important applications for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is Data Collection, where sensing data are collected at sensor nodes and forwarded to a central base station for further processing. Sinc...
Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2010 2010:698951