Computing Nash Equilibrium in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks: A Simulation-Based Approach

This paper studies the problem of computing Nash equilibrium in wireless networks modeled by Weighted Timed Automata. Such formalism comes together with a logic that can be used to describe complex features such as timed energy constraints. Our contribution is a method for solving this problem using Statistical Model Checking. The method has been implemented in UPPAAL model checker and has been applied to the analysis of Aloha CSMA/CD and IEEE 802.15.4 CSMA/CA protocols.Comment: In Proceedings IWIGP 2012, arXiv:1202.422

Domestic smart metering infrastructure and a method for home appliances identification using low‐rate power consumption data

The deployment of domestic smart metering infrastructure in Great Britain provides the opportunity for identification of home appliances utilising non-intrusive load monitoring methods. Identifying the energy consumption of certain home appliances generates useful insights for the energy suppliers and for other bodies with a vested interest in energy consumption. Consequently, the domestic smart metering system, which is an integral part of the smart cities' infrastructure, can also be used for home appliance identification purposes taking into account the limitations of the system. In this article, a step-by-step description on accessing data directly from the domestic Smart Meter via an external Consumer Access Device is described, as well as an easy-to-implement method for identifying commonly used home appliances through their power consumption signals sampled at a rate similar to the rate available by the domestic smart metering system. The experimental results indicate that the combination of time domain with frequency domain features extracted either from the 1D/2D Discrete Fourier Transform or the Discrete Cosine Transform provides improved recognition performance compared to the case where the time domain or the frequency domain features are used separately

Next WSN applications using ZigBee

Abstract. Among the latest events of the wireless revolution, the fast-growing of ZigBee as a standard for WSN (Wireless Sensors Networks) is certainly one of these. ZigBee and 802.15.4 had been proving in the last years that they can achieve the results that Wi-Fi had achieved for high bit-rate wireless LANs and some large reliable deployments are now in place implementing ad-hoc WSN in critical applications. Therefore this paper will emphasize on the past, present and future features for ZigBee, taking a look on the feedback from previous implementations to finally design the next generations of WSN based on ZigBee