Position Location Techniques and Applications

Position Location Techniques and Applications
Author: David Munoz
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0080921930

This book is the definitive guide to the techniques and applications of position location, covering both terrestrial and satellite systems. It gives all the techniques, theoretical models, and algorithms that engineers need to improve their current location schemes and to develop future location algorithms and systems. Comprehensive coverage is given to system design trade-offs, complexity issues, and the design of efficient positioning algorithms to enable the creation of high-performance location positioning systems. Traditional methods are also reexamined in the context of the challenges posed by reconfigurable and multihop networks. Applications discussed include wireless networks (WiFi, ZigBee, UMTS, and DVB networks), cognitive radio, sensor networks and multihop networks. Features Contains a complete guide to models, techniques, and applications of position location Includes applications to wireless networks, demonstrating the relevance of location positioning to these "hot" areas in research and development Covers system design trade-offs and the design of efficient positioning algorithms, enabling the creation of future location positioning systems Provides a theoretical underpinning for understanding current position location algorithms, giving researchers a foundation to develop future algorithms David Muñoz is Director and César Vargas is a member of the Center for Electronics and Telecommunications, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Frantz Bouchereau is a senior communications software developer at The MathWorks Inc. in Natick, MA. Rogerio Enríquez-Caldera is at Instituto Nacional de Atrofisica, Optica y Electronica (INAOE), Puebla, Mexico. Contains a complete guide to models, techniques and applications of position location Includes applications to wireless networks (WiFi, ZigBee, DVB networks), cognitive radio, sensor networks and reconfigurable and multi-hop networks, demonstrating the relevance of location positioning to these ‘hot’ areas in research and development Covers system design trade-offs, and the design of efficient positioning algorithms enables the creation of future location positioning systems Provides a theoretical underpinning for understanding current position location algorithms, giving researchers a foundation to develop future algorithms

Cluster-based Energy-efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Cluster-based Energy-efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Nikhil Marrapu
Publisher:
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2010
Genre: Electronic dissertations
ISBN:

TheWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) employs thousands of small sensors that communicate between themselves in a distributed manner using Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols. The energy required for wireless sensors is obtained from non-rechargeable energy sources. Due to their small size, wireless sensors are highly constrained in terms of battery energy. Hence, energy efficiency is considered a key factor in the design of a WSN. MAC protocols play an important role in the successful operation of WSNs. Energy efficiency can be achieved by introducing some significant changes that effect the energy consumption at the MAC layer. Existing protocols achieve energy savings, trading off either latency or throughput. The Sensor Medium Access Control (SMAC) is one such protocol that identifies a few sources of energy wastage and proposes an adaptive sleep-and-listen scheme to minimize energy wastage. This thesis studies the S-MAC protocol and proposes a new one Cluster-Based Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control (CBMAC), which attempts to increase energy savings by introducing changes to the existing S-MAC protocol. CBMAC introduces a clustering mechanism, in which the nodes form clusters and elect a cluster head. The cluster head takes care of data transfer and synchronization issues, while the cluster nodes are allowed to spend maximum time in the sleep state. The role of the cluster head is shared among several nodes over time in order to achieve uniform energy utilization in the network. The energy savings achieved with the CBMAC protocol are primarily due to the increased sleep-time fraction for cluster nodes. The clustering mechanism also reduces control overhead, which is prevalent in the S-MAC protocol due to the periodic control packet exchanges. CBMAC was studied under various topologies, and the results show significant energy savings over the S-MAC protocol, particularly in low-data-traffic scenarios.

Green Communication Protocols for Mobile Wireless Networks

Green Communication Protocols for Mobile Wireless Networks
Author: Xiaoli Zhou
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2017
Genre:
ISBN:

Wireless networks enter a new era in which various objects, such as mobile phones, computers, vehicles, watches, are automatically and intelligently connected to provide ubiquitous services. Green communication protocols are required to save energy consumption and improve transmission performance. MAC protocols can detect the signal status and energy consumptions of physical channels to adapt to the dynamic wireless conditions. They can also provide node-to-node transmissions for network layer protocols under green wireless networks. The thesis presents three energy efficient communication solutions under different delay-tolerant networks scenarios to study the efficiency of MAC transmission protocols within wireless networks: CPMAC, AFLAS and TREE. CPMAC applies three energy-aware algorithms to transmit different quality requirements of data within one contact interval in sparsely connected sensor networks. Simulations and analysis shows CPMAC outperforms two other important MAC protocols in wireless sensor networks and vehicular ad-hoc networks in throughput, delay, energy consumption. AFLAS uses an adaptive frame length aggregation scheme for Vehicular Networks that is designed to improve transmission efficiency and increase data throughput. Suitable aggregation frame lengths are calculated according to the current wireless status, and applied in the MAC layer at the onset of data transmissions to save overhead and energy consumption. The simulations of AFLAS exhibit a significant improvement results in data throughput, retransmissions, overheads and transmission efficiency in comparison to non-adaptive aggregation schemes. TRaffic adaptive Energy Efficient MAC protocol (TREE) adapts its work modes: reservation and contention mode, to traffic density and adjusts its duty cycle to achieve energy efficiency. TREE demonstrates better performance in terms of energy efficiency and traffic adaptability than the schedule-based MAC protocol TDMA, the contention-based protocol CSMA and the traffic adaptive protocol TRAMA under mobile sensor network environments. By studying and designing MAC protocols in wireless environments, the thesis shows the comprehensive knowledge and principles of communication protocol designs with latency relaxed. Future work is discussed for further designs and implementations of green communication protocols.

The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks

The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Habib M. Ammari
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 826
Release: 2013-12-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3642400094

During the last one and a half decades, wireless sensor networks have witnessed significant growth and tremendous development in both academia and industry. “The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Volume 1: Fundamentals” focuses on the fundamentals concepts in the design, analysis, and implementation of wireless sensor networks. It covers the various layers of the lifecycle of this type of network from the physical layer up to the application layer. Its rationale is that the first volume covers contemporary design issues, tools, and protocols for radio-based two-dimensional terrestrial sensor networks. All the book chapters in this volume include up-to-date research work spanning various classic facets of the physical properties and functional behavior of wireless sensor networks, including physical layer, medium access control, data routing, topology management, mobility management, localization, task management, data management, data gathering, security, middleware, sensor technology, standards, and operating systems. This book will be an excellent source of information for both senior undergraduate and graduate students majoring in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or any related discipline. In addition, computer scientists, researchers, and practitioners in both academia and industry will find this book useful and interesting.

High Performance Computing - HiPC 2007

High Performance Computing - HiPC 2007
Author: Srinivas Aluru
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2008-01-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3540772200

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on High-Performance Computing, HiPC 2007, held in Goa, India, in December 2007. The 53 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of five keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 253 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on a broad range of applications including I/O and FPGAs, and microarchitecture and multiprocessor architecture.

Proactive Traffic-adaptive Tuning of Contention Window for Wireless Sensor Network Medium-access Control Protocol

Proactive Traffic-adaptive Tuning of Contention Window for Wireless Sensor Network Medium-access Control Protocol
Author: Nesae Mouzehkesh Pirborj
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009
Genre:
ISBN:

The ongoing advances in wireless networks have further expanded the boundaries to the new and challenging area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)> Unique properties of sensor nodes such as limited energy storage, constrained processing capabilities and the especially different environments they are usually deployed in have prompted the need of novel protocols in all the layers of the communication stack. A Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is responsible to sufficiently provide access to a shared medium. Therefore effective techniques in order to reduce the probability of collisions while contending for the medium can be established in a MAC protocol for it organizes the specific time slot a node can have access to the channel. The need for further improving the current applied MAC protocols for WSN in order to reduce the probability of collisions while being energy aware has motivated this research. Sensor MAC as the very first MAC protocol for WSN has been designed on top of the IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol along with some added features to meet the special requirements of a WSN. However the Back-Off scheme of Sensor MAC (S-MAC) is based on a fixed Contention Window (CW) size. This is known as a significant trouble spot in S-MAC in the sense that the delay produced during collisions and idle listening can be so critical to the limited battery lifetime of a sensor node. IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol follows a static approach for obtaining the back-off time and resets the CW to its default minimum upon just one successful transmission and doubles it each time it faces a collision. While the back-off algorithm of IEEE 802.11 suffers from unfairness for its faulty behaviour in both high and low traffic loads the back-off mechanism in S-MAC suffers from a fixed CW size. Reducing the undesired idle listening time caused by unnecessary long back-off times when traffic is low and also decreasing the probability of collisions in situations with high traffic load due to the fixed CW size in S-MAC have motivated our research. We have tried to come up with a dynamic back-off algorithm for S-MAC that can extract the current traffic information of the network and engage them in estimating the contention window from which the back-off time is chosen. Our approach is a proactive algorithm to get the CW of the neighbouring nodes ready before contending for the medium. The performance of our algorithm has been measured in terms of average delay, average throughput, delivery ratio, and average energy efficiency. It is shown that our back-off scheme has reduced the delay by 47% and has decreased the energy consumption up to above 15% over the current S-MAC implementation. The delivery ratio and throughput have been improved up to 44% and 28% respectively.

Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Vidushi Sharma
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 149878335X

The advances in low-power electronic devices integrated with wireless communication capabilities are one of recent areas of research in the field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). One of the major challenges in WSNs is uniform and least energy dissipation while increasing the lifetime of the network. This is the first book that introduces the energy efficient wireless sensor network techniques and protocols. The text covers the theoretical as well as the practical requirements to conduct and trigger new experiments and project ideas. The advanced techniques will help in industrial problem solving for energy-hungry wireless sensor network applications.

Handbook on Sensor Networks

Handbook on Sensor Networks
Author: Yang Xiao
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 911
Release: 2010
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9812837302

Sensor networks have many interesting applications with great utility; however, their actually deployment and realization rely on continuous innovations and solutions to many challenging problems. Thus, sensor networks have recently attracted the attention of many researchers and practitioners. The compilation of the Handbook on Sensor Networks will meet the demand of the sensor network community for a comprehensive reference and summary of the current state of the area. The Handbook on Sensor Networks is a collection of approximately 40 chapters on sensor network theory and applications. The book spans a wide spectrum and includes topics in medium access control, routing, security and privacy, coverage and connectivity, modeling and simulations, multimedia, energy efficiency, localization and tracking, design and implementation, as well as sensor network applications.