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Wireless networks lure hackers
News A new way to attack wireless networks underscores the lack of security for PC owners using the airwaves to connect their computers, said security experts speaking at the Black Hat Briefings conference.
[July 13, 2001, 9:18]
Wireless Sensor Networks and RFID Integration for ContextAware Services
White Papers Off late, the debate over the integration of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) has garnered an increasing amount of attention despite their appearing to be disparate technologies.
[April 14, 2009, 0:00]
Wireless Sensor Networks and Beyond: A Case Study on Transport and Logistics
White Papers Wireless Sensor Networks provide opportunities even outside their usual application domain of environmental monitoring. This paper presents a case study on the use of Wireless Sensor Networks for the control and management of transport and...
[April 3, 2009, 1:22]
Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks
White Papers Ah-Hoc networks are considered one of those important contemporary architectures that provide a distributed private networking topology for connecting its nodes and transferring data. Despites their problems in routing and wireless transmission...
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
Infrastructure-Establishment From Scratch in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers The paper presents a distributed, localized and integrated approach for establishing both low-level and high-level infrastructure in wireless sensor networks. Due to the interleaved approach of constructing low- and high-level infrastructure...
[February 5, 2009, 0:00]
Configurable Medium Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper presents C-MAC, a Configurable Protocol for medium access control in wireless sensor networks. C-MAC's meta-programmed implementation yields smaller footprint and higher performance than equivalent protocols for wireless sensor networks.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
MMSN: Multi-Frequency Media Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Multi-frequency media access control has been well understood in general wireless ad hoc networks, while in wireless sensor networks, researchers still focus on single frequency solutions. In wireless sensor networks, each device is typically...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Radio Propagation Model for Long-Range Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Wireless Sensor Networks are ideal for monitoring environmental conditions, but typical nodes are limited by their short transmission range. This paper presents a long-range node with a tested range of 13.2 km.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Optimal Cluster Number Selection in Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers In clustering-based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), a certain sensing area is divided into many sub-areas. Cluster formation and cluster head selection are well done in the setup phase. With the predetermined probability and random, every round in...
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Local Update-Based Routing Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks With Mobile Sinks
White Papers Mobile sinks can be a viable solution to solve the problem that energy consumption is not balanced for all the sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Frequent location updates from the sink (a current possible solution) can lead to both...
[August 17, 2007, 10:36]
UK wireless networks 'flout the law'
News Companies and organisations across Britain are breaking the law by running high-speed wireless networks that don't comply with spectrum restrictions, a wireless expert warned on Tuesday. These networks are running at 5.8GHz without the safeguards...
[April 7, 2004, 18:05]
On Scheduling and Real-Time Capacity of Hexagonal Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Since wireless ad-hoc networks use shared communication medium, accesses to the medium must be coordinated to avoid packet collisions. This paper presents a distributed transmission scheduling algorithm for hexagonal wireless ad-hoc networks with a...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Service-Oriented Bandwidth Borrowing Scheme for Mobile Multimedia Wireless Networks
White Papers Bandwidth is the most critical resource in mobile multimedia wireless networks. Due to mobile user mobility and limited bandwidth in the mobile wireless communications networks, the Quality-of Service (QoS) guarantee becomes very complicated for...
[August 17, 2007, 10:32]
Efficient and Density-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers This paper presents a novel addressing and routing scheme for wireless sensor networks. Point-to-point routing is central to communication networks. The base of the approach on the observation that in real applications, sensors are usually deployed...
[August 25, 2007, 1:00]
Interference-Aware Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Topology control has been well studied in wireless ad hoc networks. The algorithms and definitions introduced in this paper are not based on any geometry information about the nodes and they work for any graph models of wireless communication.
[April 23, 2009, 1:24]
Convergence of Mobile Devices and Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Pervasive computing with mobile devices and wireless sensor networks has been identified as a future area of research. Wireless sensors have the possibility to sense the surrounding world and communicate wirelessly among each other or with the...
[August 17, 2007, 10:26]
Efficient Cooperative Scheduling in 802.11 Wireless Networks
White Papers A subset of these features relies on cooperative scheduling whereby nodes communicate among themselves to effectively manage resources such as power, throughput and interference in wireless networks. The proliferation of 802.11a/b/g based wireless...
[July 7, 2006, 0:00]
Monte-Carlo Localization for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Localization is crucial to many applications in wireless sensor networks. This paper proposes a range-free anchor-based localization algorithm for mobile wireless sensor networks that builds upon the Monte Carlo Localization algorithm.
[August 17, 2007, 10:25]
Towards Efficient and Robust Multihop Wireless Networks With Real-Time Media-Rich Application Support
White Papers Wireless networks have enabled untethered Internet connectivity. As wireless technology becomes more robust and sophisticated, multihop wireless networks are rapidly gaining attention owing to their ease of deployment, adaptiveness, and cost...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
Routing Stability in Static Wireless Mesh Networks
White Papers Considerable research has focused on the design of routing protocols for wireless multi-hop networks. Yet, very little is understood about the stability of routes in such networks. To conduct these case studies, it collected detailed link quality...
[August 13, 2007, 15:14]
