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DTMC modeling for performance evaluation of DW-MAC in wireless sensor networks

2016

Synchronized duty cycling (DC) aligns sensor nodes to wake up at the same time in order to reduce idle listening for medium access control (MAC) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Demand wakeup MAC (DW-MAC) is a popular synchronous DC MAC protocol which allows nodes to compete and transmit multiple packets in one operational cycle. This multiple packet transmission (MPT) feature makes DW-MAC more energy efficient when comparing with other existing single time competition based protocols such as sensor MAC (S-MAC). In the literature, no analytical model exists to evaluate the performance of DW-MAC. In this paper, we develop two associated discrete time Markov chain (DTMC) models and incorpo…

SCARKER: A sensor capture resistance and key refreshing scheme for mobile WSNs

2011

How to discover a captured node and to resist node capture attack is a challenging task in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this paper, we propose a node capture resistance and key refreshing scheme for mobile WSNs which is based on the Chinese remainder theorem. The scheme is able of providing forward secrecy, backward secrecy and collusion resistance for diminishing the effects of capture attacks. By implementing our scheme on a Sun SPOT based sensor network testbed, we demonstrate that the time for updating a new group key varies from 56 ms to 546 ms and the energy consumption is limited to 16.5–225 mJ, depending on the length of secret keys and the number of sensors in a group.

A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Biasing Techniques for $Q_{biased}$ Softmax Regression Algorithm

2021

Over the past many years the popularity of robotic workers has seen a tremendous surge. Several tasks which were previously considered insurmountable are able to be performed by robots efficiently, with much ease. This is mainly due to the advances made in the field of control systems and artificial intelligence in recent years. Lately, we have seen Reinforcement Learning (RL) capture the spotlight, in the field of robotics. Instead of explicitly specifying the solution of a particular task, RL enables the robot (agent) to explore its environment and through trial and error choose the appropriate response. In this paper, a comparative analysis of biasing techniques for the Q-biased softmax …

Position Control of a Mobile Robot through PID Controller

2019

Abstract In this paper, the implementation and tuning steps of the PID controllers were proposed for the position control of a mobile robot with differential steering. The purpose of this robot was the participation in a European amateur robotics contest, the mobile robot being developed in the Engineering Faculty of Sibiu, Department of Industrial Machines and Equipment. After a brief introduction of the mobile entertainment robot, followed by description of the robot’s different components and traction principles, several principles of tuning the PID controller for the mobile robot are presented. The paper ends with some general conclusions based upon the results obtained from studying th…

Channel Occupancy-Based Dynamic Spectrum Leasing in Multichannel CRNs: Strategies and Performance Evaluation

2016

Spectrum leasing has been proposed as an effective approach for enabling more flexible spectrum utilization in CRNs. In CRNs, a primary network (PN) which consists of multiple primary users (PUs) can lease part of the licensed spectrum to secondary users (SUs) in exchange for operational benefits. The focus of this study is to investigate how and to what extent the PN allows spectrum leasing in CRNs, considering the QoS requirements of the PN and the secondary network (SN). Correspondingly, we propose two dynamic spectrum leasing strategies, which can improve the QoS performance of SUs while ensuring sufficient remuneration for PUs. In order to dynamically adjust the portion of leased bandw…

Autonomy, Heterogeneity and Trust in Mobile P2P environments

2007

Mobile P2P environments are emerging as a result of rapid expansion of portable terminals that are able to establish direct wireless communication links among themselves. These kinds of terminals are under the control of persons and allowing interactions between their terminals is subject to trust between the individuals and their desire to preserve various aspects of autonomy against each other. In this paper we relate the concepts of node autonomy, heterogeneity and trust with each other, defining also numeric measures for them. We also investigate what kind of interactions (such as transactions, file exchanges) are possible at certain heterogeneity, autonomy and trust level between the t…

Mobile cloud computing educational tool for image/video processing algorithms

2011

This paper shows the importance and benefit of coupling cloud computing with mobile especially due to power limitations that mobile devices exhibit. Moreover, the work done shows that mobile computing can be applied for educational purposes, where a tool for students termed Mobi4Ed is presented. This educational tool aims at exploiting the concept of cloud computing in the context of image and video processing, where students can assess several algorithms in real-time. Two possible system architectures are detailed, where one uses the cellular channel and the other uses the data channel. Consequently, one of the approaches is adopted and a detailed simulation is done where an Android client…

Semantic Web Services for Smart Devices Based on Mobile Agents

2005

Among traditional users of Web resources, industry has a growing set of smart industrial devices with embedded intelligence. Just like humans, they need online services (i.e., for condition monitoring, remote diagnostics, maintenance, etc.). In this paper, we present one possible implementation framework for such Web services. Such services should be Semantic Web enabled and form a Service Network based on internal and external agents’ platforms, which can host heterogeneous mobile agents and coordinate them to perform needed tasks. The concept of a “mobile service component†assumes not only exchanging queries and service responses, but also delivering and composition of a service pro…

Introduction to the Minitrack on Software Development for Mobile Devices, the Internet-of-Things, and Cyber-Physical Systems

2021

A Novel Amplify-and-Forward Relay Channel Model for Mobile-to-Mobile Fading Channels under Line-of-Sight Conditions

2021

In this chapter, we have proposed a new flexible M2M amplify-and-forward relay fading channel model under LOS propagation conditions. The novelty in the model is that we have considered the LOS components in both transmission links, i.e., the direct link between the source mobile station and the destination mobile station as well as the link via the mobile relay. By analogy with multiple scattering radio propagation channels, we have developed the MLSS fading channel as a second-order scattering channel, where the received signal comprises the single and double scattered components. Furthermore, the flexibility of the MLSS fading channel model comes from the fact that it can be reduced to d…