Firmware Updates Over The Air for LoRa using Random Linear Network Coding

LoRaWAN is a public Wireless Sensor network with excellent properties like being long-range, low-energy radios and resulting in long battery life. Devices are connected to this network through gateways, and they will run in that deployment for years without replacement. Therefore, bugs and security issues in such devices' firmware are present...

A Comparative Study on Lightweight Authentication Protocols for IoT

Wireless Sensor Networks(WSN's) are networks of sensor that wirelessly communicate to each other. The communication of these sensors needs to be secured to prevent leaking of potentially sensitive information of the data sent between the user, gateway and sensors. For WSN's lightweight authentication, protocols have been developed in order to...

Debris-flow hazard assessment at the archaeological UNESCO world heritage site of villa romana del casale (sicily, Italy)

Archaeological sites are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of weather-related events, which may lead to irreparable damages to cultural heritage. Here an assessment of the debris-flow hazard for the UNESCO site of Roman Villa del Casale (Italy) is carried out, through a combination of historical analyses, field surveys, geomorphological and...

Performance Evaluation of a Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Network

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) potentially can improve the flexibility and management of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). To investigate the impact of SDN on WSN, in this thesis, we consider three Software-Defined Wireless Sensor Network (SD-WSN) frameworks, namely SDN-WISE, SDWN-ONOS, and TinySDN. After comparing these frameworks, the...

Operative Guidelines for Protection of Places of Worship from Terrorist Attacks: A new approach toward security design of sensitive buildings

The present thesis is aimed at defining operative guidelines devoted to the prevention and limitation of disastrous consequences for man's life and property in case of terrorist attacks perpetrated in places of worship. These guidelines are meant to be applied by governs of Western societies at different levels of spatial planning, with...

Circuit Design for Highly Sensitive RF-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes

Emerging applications such as Internet of Things (IoT), smart buildings and warehouse inventory management are important driving forces behind the development of Wireless Sensor Nodes (WSNs). With future advancements made in the semiconductor industry, these WSNs are expected to become smaller, cheaper, more reliable and with improved...

Extreme Chaos: Flexible and Efficient All-to-All Data Aggregation for Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are networks of sensor devices that perform environmental monitoring applications. Data aggregation is a vital building block for WSNs that enables rapid gather the information held by the network nodes. A continuous study of different approaches to retrieving aggregates is being carried out by the researchers of...

Network Lifetime Analysis of Data Collection Protocols

When a sensor network is deployed, we fundamentally care about three main outcomes: to obtain as much data as possible (high delivery rate), to obtain data as fast as possible (low latency), and to obtain data for as long as possible (long lifetime). This last metric, called network lifetime, is of great importance and has been widely...

Density Adaptive Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks

Broadcasting by flooding is one of the most fundamental services for both wired and wireless networks. This also includes several sensor network applications that use broadcasting to spread information from one sensor node to the other sensor nodes in the entire sensor network. These wireless sensor networks have certain characteristics such as...

Fault-Tolerant Platform for Intra-Spacecraft Modular Wireless Sensor Network

Wireless sensor networks are becoming ubiquitous in terrestrial applications. In this thesis we present a platform for wireless on-board spacecraft sensor networks with focus on the sensors that bring high 'added value' to existing space systems while becoming wireless. A novel multi-gateway architecture that uses dual hardware redundancy is...

Sensor services for buildings: A framework and opportunities

The Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet-of-Things concepts are gathering more attention day-by-day. In the near future networks of interconnected sensors that are monitoring the environment around us will start to generate enormous amounts of data. This newly emerging paradigm can be named as „Sensors Everywhere”. This new paradigm will lead ...

A 200 μA Duty-Cycled PLL for Wireless Sensor Nodes in 65 nm CMOS

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Design and Realization of a Digital Baseband Subsystem of Wakeup Receiver for Wireless Sensor Networks

In the development of wireless sensor networks, the lifetime of a sensor node is always a key design consideration. Since the battery in a sensor node can usually not be recharged or changed, power management is an effective way to extend the network lifetime. The wireless transceiver, also regarded as the ‘main radio’, is a relatively power...

A noise subspace approach for localization

Wireless sensor networks are becoming increasingly popular due to their low cost and wide applicability to support a large number of diverse application areas. Localization of sensor nodes is a fundamental requirement that makes the sensor data meaningful. Energy and cost constraints only allow to equip a few nodes with a GPS device and to...

A Java Compatible Virtual Machine for Wireless Sensor Networks

Writing software for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is hard, as programmers have to write robust, distributed, highly concurrent applications on extremely resource limited devices. Virtual machines offer among other things support for high-level object-oriented languages, dynamic memory management and protection, hardware abstraction, and...