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AUTHOR
Jakub Wojtanowski
Lifespan-Aware Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have the capability to become the eyes and ears for the future networked society allowing monitoring of any habitat or object's properties remotely and independently of an energy source. Services based on this technology may change the way we monitor and control remote areas and objects. In this paper we propose a different approach to routing data across Wireless Sensor Networks. We argue that a distance-vector protocol using a lifespan-aware metric is a plausible solution to the task of routing information in WSN in a manner that both saves energy of the individual node and manages summarized energy of the system equally and fairly. The concept is designed …
On Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are ad-hoc networks in which small independent sensor nodes have limited energy, computational resources and wireless communication capabilities. Recently, both academia and industry have shown great interest in the area of Wireless Sensor Networks. This paper focuses on the practical applications in commerce and feasible future employment of WSNs. Continued advances of wireless communication technologies have led to the following fields of applications: habitat and environmental monitoring, security of buildings and property, oil and gas installations, mines and tunnels, emergency medical care, military applications. In the near future WSNs will certainly ent…