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Modeling, Performance Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks for Embedded Sensing Applications
The general theme of this thesis is modeling, performance analysis, and design of wireless networks under standardized CSMA/CA MAC protocols. In particular, we consider two widely used MAC protocols, namely, IEEE 802.15.4, ...
Role of Power Control in Enhancing the Performance of Opportunistic Selection Schemes
Opportunistic selection reaps the benefits of multiuser diversity in many wireless
applications. For example, it increases throughput of cellular networks, lifetime
of wireless sensor networks, and improves diversity in ...
Energy-Efficient Data Fusion Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are finding increasing use in applications such as environmental monitoring, military surveillance, and healthcare due to their low cost and ease of deployment. However, the nodes in a ...
Distributed TDMA-Scheduling and Schedule-Compaction Algorithms for Efficient Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
(2018-05-16)
A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a collection of sensor nodes distributed over a geographical region to obtain the environmental data. It can have different types of applications ranging from low data rate event driven ...
Efficient Schemes for Improving the Performance of Clock Synchronization Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks Using TDMA- based MAC Protocols
(2018-05-16)
Clock synchronization in a wireless sensor network (WSN) is essential as it provides
a consistent and a coherent time frame for all the nodes across the network. Typically,
clock synchronization is achieved by message ...
Feature Adaptation Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning with Applications to Wireless Sensor Networks And Road Traffic Control
(2017-09-20)
Many sequential decision making problems under uncertainty arising in engineering, science and economics are often modelled as Markov Decision Processes (MDPs). In the setting of MDPs, the goal is to and a state dependent ...
Weighted Average Based Clock Synchronization Protocols For Wireless Sensor Networks
(2016-07-12)
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of a large number of resource constrained sensor nodes equipped with various sensing devices which can monitor events in the real world. There are various applications such as ...
On Asymmetric Distributed Source Coding For Wireless Sensor Networks
(2011-01-19)
We are concerned with addressing the worst-case distributed source coding (DSC) problem in asymmetric and interactive communication scenarios and its application to data-gathering wireless sensor networks in enhancing their ...
Topics On Security In Sensor Networks And Energy Consumption In IEEE 802.11 WLANs
(2011-05-19)
Our work focuses on wireless networks in general, but deals specifically with security in wireless sensor networks and energy consumption in IEEE 802.11 infrastructure WLANs.
In the first part of our work, we focus on ...
Wireless Sensor Networks : Bit Transport Maximization and Delay Efficient Function Computation
(2018-04-02)
We consider a wireless sensor network, in which end users are interested in maximizing the useful information supplied by the network till network partition due to inevitable node deaths. Neither throughput maximization ...