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Body Sensor Network (BSN) is a typical Internet-of-Things (IoT) application for personalized health care. It consists of economically powered, wireless and implanted medical monitoring sensor nodes, which are designed to continually collect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-10-30 Weifeng Gao , Zhiwei Zhao , Geyong Min , Yue Cao , Hancong Duan , Lu Liu , Yimiao Long , Guangqiang Yin

This letter proposes an in-sensor computing multiply-and-accumulate (MAC) circuit based on capacitance. The MAC circuits can constitute an artificial neural network(ANN) layer and be operated as ANN classifiers and autoencoders. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-28 Guihua Zhao , Yating Peng , Jiaxin Zhu , Xin Tang , Zhiyi Yu

Massive Machine-Type Communications (mMTC) is a key service category in the current generation of wireless networks featuring an extremely high density of energy and resource-limited devices with sparse and sporadic activity patterns. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Jyotish Robin , Elza Erkip

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained worldwide attention in recent years, particularly with the proliferation in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) technology which has facilitated the development of smart sensors. The paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-26 Neelam Srivastava

This paper presents comparison of Access Techniques used in Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). Comparison is performed between Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Frequency Division Multiple…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-04 N. Javaid , I. Israr , M. A. Khan , A. Javaid , S. H. Bouk , Z. A. Khan

Energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) protocols remain critical in resource-constrained Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and IoT deployments, especially under mixed traffic patterns that combine event-driven and continuous monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jesmine Damilola Omonori , Iyanu Tomiwa Durotola , Godspower Paul Osilama

Security of wireless sensor network (WSN) is always considered a critical issue and has a number of considerations that separate them from traditional wireless sensor network. First, sensor devices are typically vulnerable to physical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Nasrin Sultana , Tanvir Ahmed , A. B. M. Siddique Hossain

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research community due their wide range of applications. Unfortunately, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-09 Jaydip Sen , Sripad Krishna

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently attracted a lot of interest in the research community due their wide range of applications. Unfortunately, these networks are vulnerable to numerous security threats that can adversely affect…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Jaydip Sen

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure,etc. In sensing applications, data packets are flowing from sensor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Ms. Aruna. G. R , Mr. SivanArulSelvan

OPNET Modeler accelerates network R&D and improves product quality through high-fidelity modeling and scalable simulation. It provides a virtual environment for designing protocols and devices, and for testing and demonstrating designs in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Er. Anantdeep , Er. Sandeep kaur , Er. Balpreet Kaur

We consider the design of cognitive Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols enabling a secondary (unlicensed) transmitter-receiver pair to communicate over the idle periods of a set of primary (licensed) channels. More specifically, we…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2009-07-25 Omar Mehanna , Ahmed Sultan , Hesham El Gamal

In spite of previous widely held belief of the incompatibility of public key cryptography (PKC) schemes for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), some recent works have shown that, PKC based schemes could be implemented for such networks in some…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Md. Mokammel Haque , Al-Sakib Khan Pathan , Byung Goo Choi , Choong Seon Hong

The proliferation of wireless services and applications over the past decade has led to the rapidly increasing demand in wireless spectrum. Hence, we have been facing a critical spectrum shortage problem even though several measurements…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Le Thanh Tan

Ultra-reliable low-latency Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) communications are needed to meet the extreme requirements of enhanced driving applications. Millimeter-Wave (24.25-52.6 GHz) or sub-THz (>100 GHz) V2X communications are a viable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Dario Tagliaferri , Mattia Brambilla , Monica Nicoli , Umberto Spagnolini

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) comprise a network of sensors subcutaneously implanted or placed near the body surface and facilitate continuous monitoring of health parameters of a patient. Research endeavours involving WBAN are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Seemandhar Jain , Prarthi Jain , Prabhat K. Upadhyay , Jules M. Moualeu , Abhishek Srivastava

Electronic health monitoring is one of the major applications of wireless body area networks (WBANs) that helps with early detection of any abnormal physiological symptoms. In this paper, we propose and solve an optimization problem that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-15 Osama Amjad , Ebrahim Bedeer , Salama Ikki

Advances in wireless communication, system on chip and low power sensor nodes allowed realization of Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN). WBAN comprised of tiny sensors, which collect information of patient's vital signs and provide a real…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-11 N. Javaid , N. A. Khan , M. Shakir , M. A. Khan , S. H. Bouk , Z. A. Khan

Future generation wireless networks are designed with extremely low delay requirements which makes even small contributed delays important. On the other hand, software defined networking (SDN) has been introduced as a key enabler of future…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Seyed Hamed Rastegar , Aliazam Abbasfar , Vahid Shah-Mansouri

In this research work, we advise gateway based energy-efficient routing protocol (M-GEAR) for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We divide the sensor nodes into four logical regions on the basis of their location in the sensing field. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Q. Nadeem , M. B. Rasheed , N. Javaid , Z. A. Khan , Y. Maqsood , A. Din