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GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
15 years 3 months ago
Energy-Efficient Space-Time Coded Cooperative Routing in Multihop Wireless Networks
Due to the limited energy supplies of nodes in many applications like wireless sensor networks, energy efficiency is crucial for extending the lifetime of these networks. This pape...
Behrouz Maham, Ravi Narasimhan, Are Hjørung...
MIDDLEWARE
2007
Springer
16 years 1 days ago
A piggybacking approach to reduce overhead in sensor network gossiping
Many wireless sensor network protocols are employing gossipbased message dissemination, where nodes probabilistically forward messages, to reduce message overhead. We are concerne...
Ercan Ucan, Nathanael Thompson, Indranil Gupta
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
15 years 4 months ago
Information Quality Aware Routing in Event-Driven Sensor Networks
—Upon the occurrence of a phenomenon of interest in a wireless sensor network, multiple sensors may be activated, leading to data implosion and redundancy. Data aggregation and/o...
Hwee-Xian Tan, Mun-Choon Chan, Wendong Xiao, Peng ...
INFOCOM
2007
IEEE
16 years 6 days ago
Cooperating with Smartness: Using Heterogeneous Smart Antennas in Ad-Hoc Networks
Abstract— The ability of smart antennas to improve performance in a typically constrained ad-hoc network environment, has helped them garner significant attention over the last ...
Karthikeyan Sundaresan, Raghupathy Sivakumar
FOCS
2008
IEEE
16 years 11 days ago
Lower Bounds for Noisy Wireless Networks using Sampling Algorithms
We show a tight lower bound of Ω(N log log N) on the number of transmissions required to compute several functions (including the parity function and the majority function) in a...
Chinmoy Dutta, Jaikumar Radhakrishnan