We have developed a new on-line error modeling and optimization-based localization approach for sensor networks in the presence of distance measurement noise. The approach is solely based on the concept of consistency...
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Load balancing with stale information is becoming an increasingly important problem for distributedsystems. And k-subset algorithm is promising to address this problem. In this paper, the load balancing problem for d...
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(纸本)1424404630
Load balancing with stale information is becoming an increasingly important problem for distributedsystems. And k-subset algorithm is promising to address this problem. In this paper, the load balancing problem for distributed SLEE in NGN is studied. Considering the heterogeneity of the clustering system, a load model is designed, and a weighted k-subset (WK) algorithm is proposed. WK improves k-subset algorithm with a weight defined on the process capabilities and the resource capacities of the nodes. Experiments show that WK balances system load effectively, and outperforms k-subset in every situation by about 10%.
Topic Maps offer a powerful foundation for knowledge representation and the implementation of knowledge management applications. Using ontologies to model knowledge structures, they offer concepts to link these knowle...
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With the wide application of Wireless sensor networks, the surveillance of wireless sensor networks itself has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Based on sensor nodes under TinyOS, we develop a monitoring...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769526950
With the wide application of Wireless sensor networks, the surveillance of wireless sensor networks itself has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Based on sensor nodes under TinyOS, we develop a monitoring and control platform called MotePlat (1) to facilitate our development of WSN application systems. MotePlat employs a three-tier application framework and adopts an agent mechanism in the software architecture of sensor nodes and sink nodes. Users can remotely acquire node status information, such as its residual energy, a list of its neighbor nodes and link quality to each neighbor through this platform. They can also adjust configuration of sensor nodes, control the network to accomplish various tasks,, debug software modules of sensor nodes and test the network performance. In this paper, we describe some key technologies in MotePlat including node status information acquisition and network controlling mechanism, nodes' software architecture, and the workflow in the process of monitoring, control, debug and test.
As more and more innovative applications of wireless sensor networks emerge, the need for deploying heterogeneous sensors with different functionalities and capabilities rise rapidly. In this study, we consider a hete...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769525539
As more and more innovative applications of wireless sensor networks emerge, the need for deploying heterogeneous sensors with different functionalities and capabilities rise rapidly. In this study, we consider a heterogeneous sensor network containing at least two types of sensors: powerful sensors and normal sensors. Powerful sensors have higher energy and computing capacities, and can communicate with normal senors using the same network interface. Communications between powerful sensors may thus be facilitated by building an overlay on top of the normal sensors. The topology of the overlay is critical. The overlay must have a low diameter to efficiently support upper layer applications such as resource discovery. It must also consider the energy consumption of the relaying normal sensors. In this paper, we propose a distributed overlay formation protocol to achieve the above goals. Through simulation, we compare our protocol with two overlay formation protocols, fully connected graph and minimum spanning tree. The results show that our proposed protocol can achieve better performance both in message latency and energy consumption.
We study the problem of data propagation in sensor networks, comprised of a large number of very small and low-cost nodes, capable of sensing, communicating and computing. The distributed co-operation of such nodes ma...
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We study the problem of data propagation in sensor networks, comprised of a large number of very small and low-cost nodes, capable of sensing, communicating and computing. The distributed co-operation of such nodes may lead to the accomplishment of large sensing tasks, having useful applications in practice. We present a new protocol for data propagation towards a control center ("sink") that avoids flooding by probabilistically favoring certain ("close to optimal") data transmissions. Motivated by certain applications (see [I.F. Akyildiz, W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci, Wireless sensor networks: a survey, Journal of Computer Networks 38 (2002) 393-422], [C. Intanagonwiwat, R. Govindan, D. Estrin, Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks, in: 6th ACM/ieee Annual internationalconference on Mobile computing (MOBICOM 2000), 2000, pp. 56-67]) and also as a starting point for a rigorous analysis, we study here lattice-shaped sensor networks. We however show that this lattice shape emerges even in randomly deployed sensor networks of sufficient sensor density. Our work is inspired and builds upon the directed diffusion paradigm of [C. Intanagonwiwat, R. Govindan, D. Estrin, Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks, in: 6th ACM/ieee Annual internationalconference on Mobile computing (MOBICOM 2000), 2000, pp. 56-67]. This protocol is very simple to implement in sensor devices, uses only local information and operates under total absence of co-ordination between sensors. We consider a network model of randomly deployed sensors of sufficient density. As shown by a geometry analysis, the protocol is correct, since it always propagates data to the sink, under ideal network conditions (no failures). Using stochastic processes, we show that the protocol is very energy efficient. Also, when part of the network is inoperative, the protocol manages to propagate data very close to the
A MAG-mu IMU which is based on MEMS gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers is developed for real-time estimation of human hand motions. Appropriate filtering, transformation and sensor fusion techniques are com...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781424401390
A MAG-mu IMU which is based on MEMS gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers is developed for real-time estimation of human hand motions. Appropriate filtering, transformation and sensor fusion techniques are combined in the Ubiquitous Digital Writing Instrument to record handwriting on any surface. In this paper, we discuss the design of an extended Kalman filter based on MAG-mu IMU (Micro Inertial Measurement Unit with Magnetometers) for real-time attitude tracking. The filter utilizes the gyroscope propagation for transient updates and correction by reference field sensors, such as gravity sensors, magnetometers or star trackers. A process model is derived to separate sensor bias and to minimize wideband noise. The attitude calculation is based on quaternion which, when compared to Euler angles, has no singularity problem. Testing with synthetic data and actual sensor data proved the filter will converge and accurately track the attitude of a rigid body. Our goal is to implement this algorithm for motion recognition of a 3D ubiquitous digital pen.
Generally sensor network and wireless ad hoe network use a symmetric key agreement scheme, although this mechanism has some problems, such as key management, complex network deployment and configuration. This is becau...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0780394100
Generally sensor network and wireless ad hoe network use a symmetric key agreement scheme, although this mechanism has some problems, such as key management, complex network deployment and configuration. This is because the devices of sensor network have limitations such as power, memory, processor speed and implementation cost. The public key algorithms are considered to be too expensive in term of memory and processing requirements. In Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (WAN), we propose a new key agreement mechanism using the Security Manager (SM) for public key management based on the EC-MQV algorithm. And also, we define two security levels by means of device's power and security policies in the network. We have measured the performance of this mechanism and at the same time meeting the low implementation cost and low power.
Carbon nanotube (CNT) is a useful material for gassensing applications because of its high surface to volume ratio structure. In this work, multi-wall CNTs are incorporated into tin oxide thin film by the means of pow...
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(纸本)9781424401390
Carbon nanotube (CNT) is a useful material for gassensing applications because of its high surface to volume ratio structure. In this work, multi-wall CNTs are incorporated into tin oxide thin film by the means of powder mixing and electron beam evaporation and the enhancement of gas-sensing properties is presented. The CNTs were combined with SnO2 powder with varying concentration in the range of 0.25-5% by weight and electron beam evaporated onto glass substrates. From AFM and TEM characterization, CNT inclusion in SnO2 thin film results in the production of circular cone protrusions of CNT clusters or single tube coated with SnO2 layer. Experimental results indicate that the sensitivity to ethanol of SnO2 thin film increases by the factors of 3-6. However, if the CNT concentration is too high, the sensitivity is decreased. Moreover, the CNT doped film can operate with good sensitivity and stability at a relatively low temperature of 250300 degrees C. The improved gas-sensing properties should The attributed to the increasing of metal oxide surface adsorption area produced by CNT protrusion.
Fully pre-splicing (FPS) is an extension of TCP splicing which is content-blind that prevents the switches from using application layer information for forwarding decisions. FPS extends TCP splicing to support content...
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ISBN:
(纸本)0769526160
Fully pre-splicing (FPS) is an extension of TCP splicing which is content-blind that prevents the switches from using application layer information for forwarding decisions. FPS extends TCP splicing to support content-aware load balancing algorithms and pre-splices the client's connections to web servers. In addition, FPS extracts the application-information in kernel-space for eliminating the cost of moving data twice through user/kernel protection boundaries and the latency of scheduling the processes. To achieve our design, we extended the TCPSP project of LVS using Linux Netfilter which defines specific hooks to provide a verdict for the packet. On the performance results, FPS improves the TCPSP throughput dramatically.
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