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mTOSSIM: A simulator that estimates battery lifetime in wireless sensor networks
Knowledge of the battery lifetime of the wireless sensor network is important for many situations,
such as in evaluation of the location of nodes or the estimation of the connectivity,
along time, between devices. However, experimental evaluation is a very time-consuming
task. It depends on many factors, such as the use of the radio transceiver or the distance
between nodes. Simulations reduce considerably this time. They allow the evaluation of
the network behavior before its deployment. This article presents a simulation tool which
helps developers to obtain information about battery state. This simulator extends the
well-known TOSSIM simulator. Therefore it is possible to evaluate TinyOS applications
using an accurate model of the battery consumption and its relation to the radio power
transmission. Although an specific indoor scenario is used in testing of simulation, the simulator
is not limited to this environment. It is possible to work in outdoor scenarios too.
Experimental results validate the proposed model.Junta de Andalucía P07-TIC-02476Junta de Andalucía TIC-570
Distributed Service Discovery for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks
Service discovery in heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks is a challenging research objective, due to the inherent limitations of sensor nodes and their extensive and dense deployment. The protocols proposed for ad hoc networks are too heavy for sensor environments. This paper presents a resourceaware solution for the service discovery problem, which exploits the heterogeneous nature of the sensor network and alleviates the high-density problem from the flood-based approaches. The idea is to organize nodes into clusters, based on the available resources and the dynamics of nodes. The clusterhead nodes act as a distributed directory of service registrations. Service discovery messages are exchanged among the nodes in the distributed directory. The simulation results show the performance of the service discovery protocol in heterogeneous dense
environments
Supporting Cyber-Physical Systems with Wireless Sensor Networks: An Outlook of Software and Services
Sensing, communication, computation and control technologies are the essential building blocks of a cyber-physical system (CPS). Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a way to support CPS as they provide fine-grained spatial-temporal sensing, communication and computation at a low premium of cost and power. In this article, we explore the fundamental concepts guiding the design and implementation of WSNs. We report the latest developments in WSN software and services for meeting existing requirements and newer demands; particularly in the areas of: operating system, simulator and emulator, programming abstraction, virtualization, IP-based communication and security, time and location, and network monitoring and management. We also reflect on the ongoing
efforts in providing dependable assurances for WSN-driven CPS. Finally, we report on its applicability with a case-study on smart buildings
Implicit Cooperative Positioning in Vehicular Networks
Absolute positioning of vehicles is based on Global Navigation Satellite
Systems (GNSS) combined with on-board sensors and high-resolution maps. In
Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS), the positioning
performance can be augmented by means of vehicular networks that enable
vehicles to share location-related information. This paper presents an Implicit
Cooperative Positioning (ICP) algorithm that exploits the Vehicle-to-Vehicle
(V2V) connectivity in an innovative manner, avoiding the use of explicit V2V
measurements such as ranging. In the ICP approach, vehicles jointly localize
non-cooperative physical features (such as people, traffic lights or inactive
cars) in the surrounding areas, and use them as common noisy reference points
to refine their location estimates. Information on sensed features are fused
through V2V links by a consensus procedure, nested within a message passing
algorithm, to enhance the vehicle localization accuracy. As positioning does
not rely on explicit ranging information between vehicles, the proposed ICP
method is amenable to implementation with off-the-shelf vehicular communication
hardware. The localization algorithm is validated in different traffic
scenarios, including a crossroad area with heterogeneous conditions in terms of
feature density and V2V connectivity, as well as a real urban area by using
Simulation of Urban MObility (SUMO) for traffic data generation. Performance
results show that the proposed ICP method can significantly improve the vehicle
location accuracy compared to the stand-alone GNSS, especially in harsh
environments, such as in urban canyons, where the GNSS signal is highly
degraded or denied.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figures, in review, 201
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