Reading List for CprE 590 Section EJ: Special Topics on Wireless and Sensor Networks


Group 1. Overview

  • [CES04] David Culler, Deborah Estrin, Mani Srivastava, Guest Editors' Introduction: Overview of Sensor Networks, IEEE Computer, 37(8), Aug. 2004.
  • [ASSC02] Ian Akyildiz., W. Su, Y. Sankarasubramaniam, E. Cayirci, A Survey on Sensor Networks, IEEE Communications Magazine, Aug. 2002.
  • [GCY+04] D. Ganesan, A. Cerpa, W. Ye, Y. Yu, J. Zhao, and D. Estrin. Networking Issues in Wireless Sensor Networks. To appear in the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Special issue on Frontiers in Distributed Sensor Networks, Elsevier Publishers.
     
  • Additional References
    • J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, and K. S. J. Pister, Next Century Challenges: Mobile Networking for Smart Dust, Proc. MobiCom'99, Seattle, Washington, Aug. 1999.
    • D. Estrin, R. Govindan, J. Heidemann and S. Kumar, Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks, Proc. MobiCom'99, Seattle, Washington, Aug. 1999.
    • D. Estrin, D. Culler, K. Pister, and G. Sukhatme, Connecting the Physical World with Pervasive Networks, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Jan.-Mar. 2002.
    • Chee.-Yee. Chong and Kumar, S.P., Sensor Networks: Evolution, Opportunities, and Challenges, Proceedings of IEEE, Aug. 2003

Group 2. Applications

Group 3. MAC Protocols and Link Layer Techniques

Group 4. Error Handling

Group 5. Power Control

  • [KMW03] B. Krishnamachari, Y. Mourtada, and S. Wicker. The Energy-Robustness Tradeoff for Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. Proc. ICC'03, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2003.
  • [KKW+03] M. Kubisch, H. Karl, A. Wolisz, L.C. Zhong, and J. Rabaey. Distributed Algorithms for Transmission Power Control in Wireless Sensor Networks. Proc. WCNC'03, Mar. 2003.
  • [LS03] L. Li and P. Sinha. Throughput and Energy Efficiency in Topology-controlled Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks. Proc. WSNA'03, San Diego, CA, Sep. 2003.

Group 6. Data-Centric Routing

Group 7. Geographical Routing

  • [KK00] B. Karp and H.T. Kung. GPSR: Greedy Perimeter stateless Routing for Wireless Networks. Proc. MobiCom'00, Boston, MA, Aug. 2000.
  • [RRP+03] A. Rao, S. Ratnasamy, C. Papadimitriou, S. Shenker, and I. Stoica. Geographic Routing without Location Information. Proc. MobiCom'03, San Diego, CA, Sep. 2003.
  • [SZHK04] Karim Seada, Marco Zuniga, Ahmed Helmy, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari, Energy-Efficient Forwarding Strategies for Geographic Routing in Lossy Wireless Sensor Networks, Proc. SenSys'04.
     
  • Additional References

Group 8. Multipath Routing

Group 9. Energy-Efficient Routing

Group 3. Transport Protocols

Group 7. Data Storage and Query

  • S. Ratnasamy, B. Karp, S. Shenker, D. Estrin, R. Govindan, L. Yin, and F. Yu. Data-Centric Storage in Sensornets with GHT, A Geographic Hash Table. In Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET), Special Issue on Wireless Sensor Networks, 8:4, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 427-442, August, 2003.
  • X. Li, Y.J. Kim, R. Govindan, and W. Hong. Multi-dimensional Range Queries in Sensor Networks. The First ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys03), Los Angeles, CA, USA. November, 2003.
  • J. Newsome and D. Song. GEM: Graph EMbedding for Routing and Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks Without Geographic Information. Proc. SenSys03, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 2003.

Group 8. WSN Security

Group 10. Localization Mechanisms

Group 11. Tracking

Group 12. Connectivity and Coverage

  • Xiaorui Wang, Guoliang Xing, Yuanfang Zhang, Chenyang Lu, Robert Pless, and Christopher Gill, Integrated Coverage and Connectivity Configuration in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM SenSys 2003.
  • Alberto Cerpa and Deborah Estrin, ASCENT: Adaptive Self-Configuring sEnsor Networks Topologies, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing Special Issue on Mission-Oriented Sensor Networks, Vol. 3, No. 3, July-September 2004.
  • Santosh Kumar, Ten Hwang Lai, Jozsef Balogh, On k-Coverage in a Mostly Sleeping Sensor Network, ACM MobiCom 2004.
  • S. Meguerdichian el al, "Exposure In Wireless Ad-hoc Sensor Networks," ACM Mobicom 2001

Group 13. Synchronization

  • The Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol, SenSys 2004.
  • Decentralized synchronization protocols with nearest neighbor communication, SenSys 2004.
  • Qun Li and Daniela Rus. Global Clock Synchronization in Sensor Networks. IEEE Infocom 2004
  • Jeremy Elson, Lewis Girod and Deborah Estrin, Fine-Grained Network Time Synchronization using Reference Broadcasts (also available as PDF), Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI 2002), Boston, MA. December 2002.

Group. Lifetime optimization, capacity, signal processing

Group. Software and Simulator

  • Philip Levis, Nelson Lee, Matt Welsh, and David Culler, TOSSIM: Accurate and Scalable Simulation of Entire TinyOS Applications. ACM SenSys 2003.
     

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