Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)

• Projects
• Papers
• Conferences and Journals
• Other Sites

Projects

• SCOWR (Scalable Coordination of Wireless Robots)

• Wireless Integrated Network Sensors - (WINS)

• DARPA Sensit Project

• SCADDS - Scalable Coordination Architectures for Deeply Distributed Systems

• Great Duck Island Project

• MIT µAMPS project

• SMART DUST - Autonomous sensing and communication in a cubic millimeter

• Sensor Database Project
• PICORADIO Project
• GTA/UFRJ Project

Papers

Surveys



• A Survey on Sensor Networks
  Ian F. Akyildiz, Weilian Su, Yogesh Sankarasubramaniam, and Erdal Cayirci
  IEEE Communications Magazine, pp 102-114, August, 2002.

• System-Architectures for Sensor Networks Issues, Alternatives, and Directions
  Jessica Feng, Farinaz Koushanfar and Miodrag Potkonjak
  Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD'02), 2002.

 

MAC layer



• Data Link Layer design for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Lizhi Charlie Zhong, Jan Rabaey, Chunlong Guo and Rahul Shah
  Proceedings of the 2001 Military Communications Conference (Milcom 2001) , October, 2001.

• Energy-Aware TDMA-Based MAC for Sensor Networks
  Khaled Arisha, Moustafa Youssef and Mohamed Younis
  Proceedings of the IEEE Integrated Management of Power Aware Communications, Computing and Networking (IMPACCT 2002), New York, May 2002.

• Altruists in the PicoRadio Sensor Network
  Andreas Willig, Rahul Shah, Jan Rabaey and Adam Wolisz
  Proceedings of the International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS2002).

• Medium Access Control with Coordinated, Adaptive Sleeping for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Wei Ye, John Heidemann and Deborah Estrin
  USC/ISI TECHNICAL REPORT ISI-TR-567. January, 2003.

• An energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor network
  Wei Ye, John Heidemann, Deborah Estrin
  Proc. of the 21st International Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies, June, 2002, New York, NY, USA.
  

• Physical layer driven protocol and algorithm design for energy-ecient wireless sensor networks
  Eugene Shih, Seong-Hwan Cho, Nathan Ickes, Rex Min, Amit Sinha, Alice Wang, and Anantha Chandrakasan
  MOBICOM.01, Rome, Italy, July 2001, pp. 272-286
  

• A transmission control scheme for media access in sensor networks
  Alec Woo, David E. Culler
  MOBICOM'01, Rome, Italy, July 2001, pp. 221-235
  

• Protocols for Self-Organization of a Wireless Sensor Network
  K. Sohrabi, J. Gao, V. Ailawadhi, G.J. Pottie
  IEEE Personal Communications, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 16-27, October 2000
  

 

Routing



• Directed Diffusion: A Scalable and Robust Communication Paradigm for Sensor Networks
  Chalermek Intanagonwiwat, Ramesh Govindan and Deborah Estrin
  Proceedings of 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'00), Boston, MA, pp 56-67, august 2000.

• Negotiation-based protocols for Disseminating Information in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman, Joanna Kulik  and Hari Balakrishman
  Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom'99), Seattle, WA, August 1999.

• Energy-Efficient Communication Protocol for Wireless Microsensor Networks
  Wendi Rabiner Heinzelman, Anantha Chandrakasan and Hari Balakrishnan
  Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Maui, Hawaii, January 2000.

• PEGASIS: Power Efficient GAthering in Sensor Information Systems
  Stephanie Lindsey and Cauligi S. Raghavendra
  Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2001), Helsinki, FI, June 2001.

• Energy Aware Routing for Low Energy Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
  Rahul C. Shah and Jan Rabaey
  Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC2002), Orlando, FL, March 2002.

• Data Funneling: Routing with Aggregation and Compression for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Dragan Petrovic, Rahul C Shah, Kannan Ramchandran and Jan Rabaey
  Proceedings of the IEEE IEEE Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA2003), Anchorage, AL, May 2003.

 

Topology Control and Connectivity



• Maintaining Sensing Coverage and Connectivity
  Honghai Zhang, Jennifer Hou
  Invited paper in International Workshop on Theoretical and Algorithmic Aspects of Sensor, Ad hoc Wireless and Peer-to-Peer Networks, February 2004.
  

• Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks
  X.Wang, G. Xing, Y. Zhang, C. Lu, R. Pless and C. Gill
  ACM SIGMOBILE International Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2003), Los Angeles, CA, November, 2003.
  

• Power Optimal Connectivity and Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks
  M. Inanc, M. Magdon-Ismail and B. Yener
  Technical Report TR-03-06, Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, July 2003.
  

• Distributed Topology Control in Wireless Sensor Networks with Asymmetric Links
  Jilei Liu and Baochun Li
  GLOBECOM 2003 - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, no. 1, pp. 1257-1262, Dec 2003.
  

• Energy-Efficient Topology Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Sensor Networks
  Y. Tseng, Y. Chang and B. Tzeng
  Journal of Information Science Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 1. 2003.
  

• Topology Control in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Problems and Solutions
  N. Li and J. C. Hou
  Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2004.
  

• Topology Control Protocols to Conserve Energy in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
  Y. Xu, S. Bien, Y. Mori, J. Heidemann, and D. Estrin
  CENS Technical Report 0006, January 2003.
  

 

Transport Layer



• CODA: Congestion Detection and Avoidance in Sensor Networks
  C.Y. Wan, S.B. Eisenman, and A.T. Campbell
  The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys03), Los Angeles, CA, USA. November 2003.
  

• RMST: Reliable Data Transport in Sensor Networks
  F. Stann and J. Heidemann
  Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA'03), May 2003.
  

• Event-to-Sink Reliable Transport in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Y. Sankarasubramaniam, O. B. Akan, I. F. Akyildiz
  MobiHoc'03, Annapolis, Maryland, USA, June 2003.
  

• PSFQ: A Reliable Transport Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
  C.Y. Wan, A.T. Campbell, and L. Krishnamurthy
  WSNA'02, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 2002.
  

• Providing Application QoS through Intelligent Sensor Management
  M. Perillo, W.B. Heinzelman
  Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA'03), May 2003.
  

 

Middleware



• Issues in Designing Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks
  Y. Yu, B. Krishnamachari, V.K. Prasanna
  To appear in IEEE Network Magazine, special issue on Middleware Technologies for Future Communication Networks, 2004.
  

• Implementing Software on Resource-Constrained Mobile Sensors: Experiences with Impala and ZebraNet
  Ting Liu, Christopher Sadler, Pei Zhang,Margaret Martonosi
  The Second International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSYS'04), June 2004.
  

• Middleware to Support Sensor Network Applications
  Wendi B. Heinzelman, Amy L. Murphy, Hervaldo S. Carvalho, Mark A. Perillo
  IEEE Network Magazine Special Issue, January 2004.
  

• Impala: A Middleware System for Managing Autonomic,Parallel Sensor Systems
  Ting Liu,Margaret Martonosi
  ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'03), June 2003.
  

• Providing Application QoS through Intelligent Sensor Management
  Mark A. Perillo, Wendi B. Heinzelman,
  Proc. of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA '03), May 2003.
  

• Garnet: A Middleware Architecture for Distributing Data Streams Originating in Wireless Sensor Networks
  L. Ville,P. Dickman
  23rd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW'03), May 2003.
  

• Node-level Energy Management for Sensor Networks in the Presence of Multiple Applications
  A. Boulis, M.B. Srivastava
  IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'03), March 2003.
  

• Middleware Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks
  K. Romer, O. Kasten, F. Mattern
  ACM Mobile Computing and Communication Review, October 2002.
  

 

Data Aggregation



• Synchronization of Multiple Levels of Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks
  W. Yuan, S. Krishnamurthy, S. K. Tripathi
  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM'03), December 2003.
  

• Aggregation in Sensor Networks: An Energy-Accuracy Trade-Off
  A. Boulis, S. Ganeriwal, M. Srivastava
  IEEE Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA), May 2003.
  

• AIDA: Adaptive Application Independent Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
  Tian He, M. Blum, John A Stankovic, Tarek Abdelzaher
  ACM Transaction on Embedded Computing System, 2003
• Efficient Algorithms for Maximum Lifetime Data Gathering and Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
  K. Kalpakis, K. Dasgupta, P.Namjoshi
  The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, August 2002.
  

• Supporting Aggregate Queries Over Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
  S. Madden, R. Szewczyk, M. J. Franklin, D. Culler
  IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA), July 2002.
  

• Impact of Network Density on Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
  C. Intanagonwiwat, D. Estrin, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann
  Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, July 2002.
  

• The Impact of Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
  B. Krishnamachari, D. Estrin, S. Wicker
  International Workshop on Distributed Event-Based Systems - DEBS02, July 2002.
  

• Sensor Fusion Using Dempster-Shafer Theory
  H. Wu, M. Siegel, R. Stiefelhagen, J. Yang
  IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Anchorage, May 2002.
  

• Tag: a Tiny Aggregation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
  S. Madden, M. J. Franklin, J. M. Hellerstein, W. Hong
  Proceedings of the 5th Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2002.
  

Security



• SPINS: Security Protocols for Sensor Networks
  Perrig, A., Szewckyk, R., Tygar et al
  Mobile Computing and Networking, Rome, Italy, 2001.
  

• On Communication Security in Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks
  S. Slijepcevic, V. Tsiatsis, and S. Zimbeck
  IEEE Eleventh International Workshops on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WETICE-2002), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. June 10-12, 2002.
  

• Denial of Service in Sensor Networks
  A.D. Wood and J.A. Stankovic
  IEEE Computer , Volume: 35 , Issue: 10 , Oct. 2002.
  

• Secure Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks: Attacks and Countermeasures
  C. Karlof and D. Wagner
  Sensor Network Protocols and Applications (SNPA'03). Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on , 11 May 2003.
  

• A Low-Energy Key Management Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
  G. Jolly, M.C. Kuscu, P. Kokate, and M. Younis
  IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications(ISCC'03). KEMER - ANTALYA, TURKEY. June 30 - July 3 2003.
  

• SIA: Secure Information Aggregation in Sensor Networks
  B. Przydatek, D. Song, and A. Perrig
  The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys03), Los Angeles, CA, USA. November, 2003.
  

Conferences and Journals

Other Sites

• Raj Jain Site

• Autonomous Networks Research Group