In this paper conceptions and architectural considerations of the OSAMI project and their specializations towards the requirements of the e-health domain by the German subproject (OSAMI-D) are described. Along with th...
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In this paper conceptions and architectural considerations of the OSAMI project and their specializations towards the requirements of the e-health domain by the German subproject (OSAMI-D) are described. Along with the expected shift of healthcare service between stationary towards ambulatory care, a standardized way of integrating medical data acquired at home into the IT infrastructure of hospitals and the synchronization with medical workflows have to be implemented. Therefore, the OSAMI-D project will provide open source components that implement the required interfaces. Preliminary results of the requirements analysis and the implementation of first domain-specific services are presented. These services are used to realize two home care scenarios, which support ambulant cardiologic rehabilitation (indoor and outdoor). Special emphasis is placed on standards and formats for the communication and storage of patient data.
Recently, the number of floods has been increased world-wide enormously. Especially, the damage along flooded rivers cannot be significantly avoided with current techniques. That leads to a high demand for new approac...
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(纸本)9781605581231
Recently, the number of floods has been increased world-wide enormously. Especially, the damage along flooded rivers cannot be significantly avoided with current techniques. That leads to a high demand for new approaches to detect leakages in the dike body early. Therefore, we present our work in progress on developing a "Leakage Detection System" (LDS). After this system has been installed alongside a dike, it operates autonomously and alarms the headquarter if the water level exceeds a critical threshold. This allows rescue workers to strengthen drenched regions preemptively. Real world experiments in a reconstructed dike environment demonstrate the feasibility of our system approach. Copyright 2008 ACM.
The localization process in wireless sensor networks must produce precise positions at minimal requirements. It is hard to comply with these conditions, due to the strong resource limitation of each sensor node. Altho...
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The continual improvements in embedded devices and internet technologies increases the leverage of distributed systems in domains like home automation, industry automation, automotive and other application domains. Th...
The continual improvements in embedded devices and internet technologies increases the leverage of distributed systems in domains like home automation, industry automation, automotive and other application domains. The Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS) is a relative new specification based on Web services that can be used as a cross domain distributed system technology. Although the specification is almost finished and software tools are on the way there are some issues left to be done for pushing DPWS in a competitive direction. DPWS still misses a description mechanism that defines interfaces to the services/devices at development time. On the other hand DPWS provides the concept of device and service types which are used for dynamic discovery without proposing a formal type description. Such mechanism improves interoperability between related devices. This paper addresses this issue and proposes a template approach similar to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).
Localization of sensor nodes is one of the key issues in wireless sensor networks. It is a precondition for a variety of scenarios as well as geographic clustering and routing. A simple approach for coarse grained loc...
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Localization of sensor nodes is one of the key issues in wireless sensor networks. It is a precondition for a variety of scenarios as well as geographic clustering and routing. A simple approach for coarse grained localization is weighted centroid localization (WCL), which, unfortunately, comes with some drawbacks. Therefore, we present the "Adaptive WCL" (AWCL) algorithm that outperforms the linearly weighted WCL in terms of accuracy. Moreover, AWCL achieves similar accuracy as WCL using quadratic weights, but does not rely on complex calculations like quadratic WCL. The adaptive character of AWCL leads to a small localization failure for beacon communication ranges, exceeding the beacon distance.
Tapped delay lines are chain-like structures, which are able to measure short time intervals. Due to their homogeneous structure, they are particularly suited for being implemented on field-programmable gate arrays. B...
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Tapped delay lines are chain-like structures, which are able to measure short time intervals. Due to their homogeneous structure, they are particularly suited for being implemented on field-programmable gate arrays. But unfortunately, the attainable resolution in time is inherently limited to the average processing speed of the chainpsilas elements. As an alternative, this paper proposes a new architecture, called BOUNCE, in which all processing elements run in parallel. With its inherent parallelism, BOUNCE yields a resolution that depends on the variation, i.e., the differences, among the elementspsila processing speeds. The first prototype was implemented on an ALTERA StratixII 2S60 board Even though this board is clocked at only 85 MHz, the prototype yields a resolution of about 100ps.
Field-programmable gate arrays provide a flexible and easy-to-configure implementation platform that supports the development of tamper-proof networked embedded systems. Many of these systems employ the Advanced Encry...
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Field-programmable gate arrays provide a flexible and easy-to-configure implementation platform that supports the development of tamper-proof networked embedded systems. Many of these systems employ the Advanced Encryption Standard algorithm in order to achieve a secure mode of operation. Since this algorithm is of a high computational complexity, this paper utilizes various hardware-software co-design techniques for its implementation. These techniques vary in the degree of required design expertise, the degree of how (software) functionalities are implemented in hardware logic, and the achievable speedup, which is about 12 to approximately four thousand.
The main purpose of wireless sensor networks is to provide information about an area of interest. In order to fulfill this task, physical parameters have to be measured by as many sensors as possible to improve the kn...
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The main purpose of wireless sensor networks is to provide information about an area of interest. In order to fulfill this task, physical parameters have to be measured by as many sensors as possible to improve the knowledge on the sensed area. In contrast, due to the resource-limited nature of sensor networks, the number of actively participating nodes should be kept to a minimum. This paper investigates the trade-off between the two conflicting requirements with special focus on localization of sensor nodes. A distributed algorithm to select subsets of sensor nodes for localization is analyzed regarding the accuracy of localization.
The capabilities of passive optical networks (PONs) are strongly influenced by the quality of the used dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm. DBA algorithms control the assignment of available upstream bandwidt...
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The capabilities of passive optical networks (PONs) are strongly influenced by the quality of the used dynamic bandwidth allocation (DBA) algorithm. DBA algorithms control the assignment of available upstream bandwidth to the users connected to the PON. In an oversubscribed environment, that poses a challenge regarding the selection of an appropriate DBA algorithm. Therefore, DBA algorithms are subject of continuous research. To support efficient development and realistic evaluation of DBA algorithms, an FPGA-based hardware evaluation platform is presented. It supports fast implementation and evaluation of both hardware- and software-based algorithms. The evaluation process is featured by software tools, which are used to control stimulus creation. Furthermore, the results of changes in simulated user traffic can be analyzed on a connected workstation.
The localization process in wireless sensor networks must produce precise positions at minimal requirements. It is hard to comply with these conditions, due to the strong resource limitation of each sensor node. Altho...
ISBN:
(纸本)9781424431755
The localization process in wireless sensor networks must produce precise positions at minimal requirements. It is hard to comply with these conditions, due to the strong resource limitation of each sensor node. Although numerous algorithms have already been presented, so far there exist neither an extensive simulative comparison of them nor a qualified parameter to indicate their efficiency. Thus, this paper introduces a selected number of the most important algorithms for sensor networks. These algorithms are compared with each other considering achieved localization error and consumed energy. Then, we propose an adequate parameter to quantify their efficiency - the "Power Error Product" (PEP).
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