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Spiridon, V.L. (author)In recent years, there is an increasing interest in the scientific community for development of algorithms targeting large-scale networks. In addition to their sheer size, these networks also exhibit various topology dynamics -- nodes join and exit at high rates (churn), are mobile and are not always reliable. Such extreme properties make...master thesis 2013
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Vasilopoulos, V. (author)Traditionally, link quality estimation (LQE) has been viewed as an a priori step in sensor network routing protocols because it filters out unreliable links before data transmission. Recent results, however, show that protocols can perform well without a priori LQE. Because getting rid of LQE seems rather counter-intuitive, the aim of this work...master thesis 2013
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Delawari, A.A. (author)Accurate time synchronization is crucial for many applications of Wireless Sensor Networks. Extensive research is performed on this topic, however, there are some aspects of time synchronization which still require attention. In this thesis we investigate aspects of the network which influence the accuracy of packed based time synchronization in...master thesis 2013
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Kocsi-Horvath, Z. (author)We can foresee a near-future scenario where a huge number of semi-intelligent devices are part of our everyday environment, our homes, the public places and the office as well. The intelligent thermostat uploads the temperature readings to an online database; the fridge sends a tweet when we are out of milk; the coffee machine texts us when the...master thesis 2013
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Avramescu, D.I. (author)The number of wireless sensor networks is constantly increasing. In the deployment phase of the WSNs projects it is common for failures to appear. These can be caused by software or hardware faults or by environmental factors. In order to find the source of these problems, the WSN needs to be inspected. Since the deployments of WSN are often...master thesis 2012
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Van Berkel, S.E.F. (author)In recent years, large-scale systems have become mainstream at a very high pace. Typical examples of large-scale systems are MANETs, Wireless Sensor Networks, Pervasive Computing, Swarm Robotics, etc. These systems distinguish them- selves by the large number of devices they embody, and emergent behaviors they exhibit: Behavior that is globally...master thesis 2012
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Mihoci Andrei-Bogdan, A.B. (author)The technology required to design and deploy large scale wireless sensor networks is available, affordable and shows an increased interest in various application domains. However, application development for distributed systems is a cumbersome task, typically carried out with low-level embedded programming paradigms. A middleware is usually...master thesis 2011
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Wang, Y. (author)The great demand for location-aware wireless sensor networks (WSNs) motivates the research in this thesis. The unique characteristics of WSNs impose numerous challenges on localization and communication. In this thesis, we handle some key challenges and provide affordable solutions. Impulse radio ultra wideband (IR-UWB) is employed as the...doctoral thesis 2011
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Sebastiano, F. (author)Wireless Sensor Networks require small low-cost radios to enable communication among its nodes. Since those radios must be fully integrated to reduce cost and size, integration is required also for their on-board time references, which are needed to achieve synchronization with the other nodes. To deal with the lower accuracy of integrated...doctoral thesis 2011
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Yuan, W. (author)As an emerging short-range wireless technology, IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly used in the fields of home control, industrial control, consumer electronics, energy management, building automation, telecom services, personal healthcare, etc. IEEE 802.15.4/Zig-Bee WSNs share the same 2.4 GHz license-free...doctoral thesis 2011
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Huang, Z. (author)In the development of wireless sensor networks, power consumption is one of the bottlenecks for wide applications. In order to improve the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks, a wakeup radio scheme is presented. The main transceiver that is responsible for data communication is in the sleep mode most of the time. An additional device...master thesis 2011
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Alvarez Fernández, M.V. (author)Wireless sensor networks is a technology that has been used in a vast number of applications and environments with successful results in the past. Therefore increasing nowadays the number of users of this type of devices and their new applications. In this thesis we worked hand-in-hand with the ISIS B.V. Company to provide a proper WSN design to...master thesis 2011
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Guo, C. (author)Wireless communication and networking technology has facilitated people to be connected with each other closely. Cellular network is evolving now from the third generation to the fourth generation. In the meanwhile we are experiencing the demand for wireless networks which can facilitate the communication between humans and environment, human...doctoral thesis 2010
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Parker, T. (author), Halkes, G. (author), Bezemer, M. (author), Langendoen, K. (author)Most current WSN MAC protocol implementations have multiple tasks to perform—deciding on correct timing, sending of packets, sending of acknowledgements, etc. However, as much of this is common to all MAC protocols, there is duplication of functionality, which leads to larger MAC protocol code size and therefore increasing numbers of bugs....journal article 2010
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Steen, R. (author)Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are ad-hoc wireless networks of small form-factor embedded nodes with limited memory, processing, and energy resources. Certain applications, like security and art monitoring,require reliable data transport. Current work for WSNs only provides stochastic reliability or guaranteed reliability for bulk transfer....master thesis 2010
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Drago, Salvatore (author), Leenaerts, Domine M.W. (author), Nauta, Bram (author), Sebastiano, F. (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author), Breems, LJ (author)<br/><br/>journal article 2010
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Wang, T. (author), Leus, G. (author), Huang, L. (author)Sensor positioning is an important task of location-aware wireless sensor networks. In most sensor positioning systems, sensors and beacons need to emit ranging signals to each other. Sensor ranging energy should be low to prolong system lifetime, but sufficiently high to fulfill prescribed accuracy requirements. This motivates us to investigate...journal article 2009
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Halkes, G.P. (author)The advent of small, and cheap sensors provides a wide range of measuring options. By making these sensors operate wirelessly we can now measure more than ever. However, wireless operation also provides new challenges. For example, how can we make these wireless sensors communicate effectively, i.e. without all the sensors trying to talk at the...doctoral thesis 2009
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He, J. (author)Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is becoming a more and more popular research area since its emergence. Many WSN researches rely on practical experiments in real wireless networks. However, to setup and conduct such an experiment is always cumbersome and time-consuming. So in this thesis, we design and implement a WSN testbed to solve the problem...master thesis 2009
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De Jong, A.N. (author)Model-based diagnosis is a technique where a model of a system is combined with observations from that system, to generate diagnoses for failures of the system. This thesis looks at how model-based diagnosis can be applied to wireless sensor networks (WSNs). WSNs are ad-hoc wireless networks of small form-factor, embedded nodes with limited...master thesis 2009