Today, there exist many algorithms and protocols for constructing agregation or dissemination trees for wireless sensor networks that are optimal (for different notions of optimal, i.e. under different cost metrics). ...
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(纸本)3540352279
Today, there exist many algorithms and protocols for constructing agregation or dissemination trees for wireless sensor networks that are optimal (for different notions of optimal, i.e. under different cost metrics). However, all these schemes differ from one common failing - they construct an optimal tree for a given fixed subset of the sensors. In most practical scenarios, the sensor group is continuously and dynamically varying - consider for example the set of sensors scattered in a forest that are sensing temperatures above some specified threshold, during a wildfire. Given the limited computational and energy resources of sensor nodes it is impossible to either prestore the optimal tree for every conceivable group or to dynamically generate them on the fly. In this paper we propose the novel approach of constructing a single group-independent spanning tree (GIst) T for the network and then letting any sensor group S use the subtree induced by S on T, TS as its group aggregation tree. The important question is, how does the quality of the subtree TS compare to the optimal tree, OPTs, across different groups S. We consider two well-accepted measures - aggregation cost (sum over all links) and delay (diameter). We show that in polynomial time we can construct a GIst that simultaneously achieves O(log n)-approximate aggregation cost and O(1)-approximate delay, for all groups S. To the best of our knowledge GIst is the first construction with a nontrivial and provable performance guarantee that works for all groups. We provide a practical and distributed protocol for realizing GIst that requires only local knowledge. We show an Ω(n) lower bound for commonly accepted solutions such as Mst and SPT (i.e. there exists a group for which the induced subtree performs poorly) and demonstrate by simulation that GIst is good not just in the worst case - it outperforms SPT and Mst by between 30 and 60 per cent in realistic random scenarios. GIst is an ov
We have demonstrated multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNTs) based sensors, which are capable of detecting alcohol vapor with ultra-low power. We fabricated the Si-substrate sensors using an AC electrophoretic technique...
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(纸本)9781424401390
We have demonstrated multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNTs) based sensors, which are capable of detecting alcohol vapor with ultra-low power. We fabricated the Si-substrate sensors using an AC electrophoretic technique so as to form bundled MWCNTs sensing elements between An microelectrodes. The I-V measurement illustrates that we can activate the sensors at the Ohmic region of the sensors (at 10 mu A), which is without any overheat effect. The sensors only need an ultra-low power (similar to 1 mu W) to detect the alcohol vapor. They exhibit fast, reversible and repeatable response. We have tested the response of the sensors with alcohol concentrations from 10ppth to 400ppth (ppth = parts per thousand). Our result shows that there is a linear relation between the resistance of the sensors and alcohol concentration. Also, we can easily reverse the sensor to the initial reference resistance by annealing them at 100-250 mu A current within 6 minutes. Moreover, the sensors are selective with respect to flow from air, water vapor, and alcohol vapor. Finally, we have also studied how the temperature of the sensors affects their response towards alcohol vapor. The result shows that the performance of the sensors will deteriorate as the temperature of the sensors increase. Also, the cooling effect of the vapor is not a dominating factor in determining the response of the sensor. Based on our experiments, we prove the feasibility of turning the MWCNTs sensors into a commercialized alcohol sensor with ultra-low power requirements.
The static interconnection network topologies in the distributed shared memory systems (DSM) have several limitations. The reconfigurable interconnection networks may reduce the network congestion, network latency and...
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(纸本)9781424405688
The static interconnection network topologies in the distributed shared memory systems (DSM) have several limitations. The reconfigurable interconnection networks may reduce the network congestion, network latency and improve the overall performance. However it is necessary to know when the right moment to perform the reconfiguration is and how to implement it. In this paper, we present our study on communication patterns of parallel scientific and commercial benchmark applications on a simulated but realistic DSM machine and their relation to context switching in the operating system. We also propose a reconfiguration scheme that is triggered by the context switches.
We consider an energy-aware packet transmission node that supports packets of two types: real-time packets and non real-time packets. Several energy-aware packet scheduling schemes are explored and discussed. Using th...
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(纸本)0780394100
We consider an energy-aware packet transmission node that supports packets of two types: real-time packets and non real-time packets. Several energy-aware packet scheduling schemes are explored and discussed. Using the average delay of non real-time packets and the rejection rate of real-time packets as performance metrics, a scheduling scheme for this purpose is proposed. It is composed of two scheduling stages. In the early stage, each packet type is scheduled independently on the per type basis. They are then merged using PGPS into the second stage where the transmission speed for each packet is assigned. The packets are then transmitted using Dynamic Modulation Scaling (DMS). The method has been evaluated using simulation and compared against one in which energy savings schemes are not incorporated. The result shows that not only does it provide a fair share of bandwidth (low rejected packets for real-time packets and low delay for non real-time packets) between these streams' but it also saves the overall transmission energy, particularly in the light load case, where as much as 90% savings can be obtained.
Key establishment and its management in Wireless sensor Networks is a challenging problem due to the limited resources and disordered structure of such networks. In this paper we propose a dynamic group-based key mana...
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In the wireless sensor networks, an important issue of area coverage is to know how many sensor nodes are needed in a deployment under a certain kind of distribution. In that way, the nodes can be dense enough to form...
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In the Information Age, armies of some countries work hard for more than ten years, obtain substantial progress in the informatization construction. But they mainly focus on modernization of communication in this cons...
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This paper proposes a set of novel distributed algorithms on top of m-D irregular mesh overlay to achieve the short delay and low network resource consumption end host multicast services. Our end host multicast fully ...
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The efforts of EuroSys, the professional society for European systems community, towards researching distributedsystems, are discussed. As far as publishing about distributedsystems is concerned European are way beh...
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The efforts of EuroSys, the professional society for European systems community, towards researching distributedsystems, are discussed. As far as publishing about distributedsystems is concerned European are way behind the US. The Symposium on Operating systems Design and Implementation, ACM Transactions on Computer systems, and the ACM Symposium on Operating systems Principles rank 1st, 8th, and 11th on the CiteSeer impact list. The ACM sigops European workshop is 216th, the internationalconference on distributedcomputingsystems is 217th, the international Symposium on Fault-Tolerant computing is 270th, and the European conference on Parrallel PRocessing is 491st. Researchers are trying to change the system from within by creating the Euro Sys professional society, holding workshops, launching the EuroSys conference series, networking and exchanging information, and so on.
The growing popularity of wireless sensor network applications has stimulated strong interest in extending quality of service support to existing routing protocols. Conventional wireless sensor network routing protoco...
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ISBN:
(纸本)3540371893
The growing popularity of wireless sensor network applications has stimulated strong interest in extending quality of service support to existing routing protocols. Conventional wireless sensor network routing protocols usually concentrate on the constrained condition of 'shortest path' with minimum used energy. However, the path with minimum used energy can't provide the minimum end to end delay guarantee. Moreover, wireless sensor network is required to support the delay-sensitive traffic. So the reduction of the end to end delay is a new challenge for wireless sensor network. To this point, this paper mainly focuses on the node delay constrained energy efficiently routing algorithm.
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