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The problem of time synchronization in dense wireless networks is considered. Well established synchronization techniques suffer from an inherent scalability problem in that synchronization errors grow with an increasing number of hops…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2007-07-16 An-swol Hu , Sergio D. Servetto

One of the main characteristics of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is the constrained energy resources of their wireless sensor nodes. Although this issue has been addressed in several works and got a lot of attention within the years, the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Gabriel Martins Dias , Boris Bellalta , Simon Oechsner

We demonstrate a wireless, decentralized time-alignment method for distributed antenna arrays and distributed wireless networks that achieves picosecond-level synchronization. Distributed antenna arrays consist of spatially separated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Naim Shandi , Jason M. Merlo , Jeffrey A. Nanzer

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a collection of tiny nodes that have low energy levels and have become an essential component of the modern communication infrastructure and very important in industry and academia. Energy is crucial in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Ghassan Samara , Ghadeer Al Besani , Mohammad Alauthman , Mohammad Al Khaldy

Spiking neural networks (SNNs), inspired by the spiking behavior of biological neurons, provide a unique pathway for capturing the intricacies of temporal data. However, applying SNNs to time-series forecasting is challenging due to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Changze Lv , Yansen Wang , Dongqi Han , Xiaoqing Zheng , Xuanjing Huang , Dongsheng Li

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of nodes that gather metrics like temperature, pollution or pressure from events generated by external entities. Localization in WSNs is paramount, given that the collected metrics must be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-11 Luis Sanabria-Russo , Cristina Cano , Boris Bellalta

This paper is about the wireless sensor network in environmental monitoring applications. A Wireless Sensor Network consists of many sensor nodes and a base station. The number and type of sensor nodes and the design protocols for any…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-02-10 Rathna. R , Sivasubramanian. A

Interference-aware resource allocation of time slots and frequency channels in single-antenna, halfduplex radio wireless sensor networks (WSN) is challenging. Devising distributed algorithms for such task further complicates the problem.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-03-21 Panos N. Alevizos , Efthymios A. Vlachos , Aggelos Bletsas

In recent years, the wireless sensor network (WSN) is playing a key role in sensing, collecting and disseminating information in various applications. An important feature associated with WSN is to develop an efficient data distribution and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Mrinal K. Naskar , Amitava Mukherjee

We present a synchronization algorithm to let nodes in a sensor network simultaneously execute a task at a given point in time. In contrast to other time synchronization algorithms we do not provide a global time basis that is shared on all…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2010-09-30 Tobias Baumgartner , Sandor P. Fekete , Winfried Hellmann , Alexander Kroeller

Clustering in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an important technique to ease topology management and routing. Clustering provides an effective method for prolonging lifetime of a WSN. This paper proposes energy efficient multi-level…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-05-24 Surender Soni , Narottam Chand

Automated collection of environmental data may be accomplished with wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a general discussion of WSNs is given for the gathering of data for educational research. WSNs have the capability to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Tom Adam Frederic Anderson , Yean-Fu Wen

In many applications, it is a basic operation for the sink to periodically collect reports from all sensors. Since the data gathering process usually proceeds for many rounds, it is important to collect these data efficiently, that is, to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Tung-Wei Kuo , Kate Ching-Ju Lin , Ming-Jer Tsai

Clock synchronization and ranging over a wireless network with low communication overhead is a challenging goal with tremendous impact. In this paper, we study the use of time-to-digital converters in wireless sensors, which provides clock…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-17 Pol del Aguila Pla , Lissy Pellaco , Satyam Dwivedi , Peter Händel , Joakim Jaldén

The goal of this work is to describe a self-management system that correlates data sensed by different Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and adjusts the number of active nodes in each network to provide an appropriate amount of measurements.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Gabriel Martins Dias

Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) is fundamental for the reliable, low-latency networks that will enable the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Wi-Fi has historically been considered unfit for TSN, as channel contention and collisions…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Fabio Busacca , Corrado Puligheddu , Francesco Raviglione , Riccardo Rusca , Claudio Casetti , Carla Fabiana Chiasserini , Sergio Palazzo

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN) are a today technology with great practicability in the real world. We focus on describing WSN architecture, regarding usefulness in constructions like structural health monitoring and importance, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-06 Daniel-Ioan Curiac , Ovidiu Banias , Ioan Borza

Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of sensor nodes that report temperature, relative humidity, and other environmental parameters. The time between two successive measurements is a critical parameter to set during the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Gabriel Martins Dias , Maddalena Nurchis , Boris Bellalta

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many applications and are an essential part of IoT systems. The primary functionality of a WSN is gathering data from specific points that are covered with sensor nodes and transmitting the collected…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Mustafa Can Çavdar , Ibrahim Korpeoglu , Özgür Ulusoy

The main focus of recent time synchronization research is developing power-efficient synchronization methods that meet pre-defined accuracy requirements. However, an aspect that has been often overlooked is the high dynamics of the network…

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