WSN Papers by Category

Here are papers related to wireless sensor networks. They are organized by category. Please see the table of contents on the right for the categories.

Overview / General Literature

• Andrew Wheeler, "Commercial Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks Using ZigBee." IEEE Communications Magazine. Vol. 45, No. 4. April 2007.
• Salem Hadim and Nader Mohamed, "Middleware Challenges and Approaches for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 3, 2006, art. no. 0603-o3001.
• Römer, Kay; Friedemann Mattern (December 2004). "The Design Space of Wireless Sensor Networks". IEEE Wireless Communications 11 (6): 54-61.

Applications / Deployments

• T. He, S. Krishnamurthy, J. Stankovic, T. Abdelzaher, L. Luo, T. Yan, R. Stoleru, L. Gu, G. Zhou, J. Hui and B. Krogh, VigilNet: An Integrated Sensor Network System for Energy Efficient Surveillance, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, to appear.
• L. Luo, Q. Cao, C. Huang, T. Abdelzaher, J. Stankovic, and M. Ward, EnviroMic: Towards Cooperative Storage and Retrieval in Audio Sensor Networks, IEEE ICDCS, to appear.
• L. Selavo, A. Wood, Q. Cao, A. Srinivasan, H. Liu, T. Sookoor, J. Stankovic, Luster: Wireless Sensor Network for Environmental Research, ACM SenSys, Nov. 2007.
• Lewis Girod, Martin Lukac, Vlad Trifa, and D Estrin, The Design and Implementation of a Self -Calibrating Distributed Acoustic Sensing Platform, ACM SenSys, November 1–3, 2006, Boulder, Colorado, USA.
• Gilman Tolle, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, Neil Turner, Kevin Tu, Stephen Burgess (UCB), David Gay, Phil Buonadonna, Wei Hong (Arched Rock Corporation), Todd Dawson, David Culler (UCB), A Macroscope in the Redwoods, ACM SenSys, November 2-4, 2005, San Diego, CA.
• Mohammad Rahimi (UCLA), Rick Baer (Agilent Technology), Obimdinachi I. Iroezi, Juan C. Garcia (UCLA), Jay Warrior (Agilent Technology), Deborah Estrin, Mani Srivastava (UCLA), Cyclops: In Situ Image Sensing and Interpretation in Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM SenSys, November 2-4, 2005, San Diego, CA.
• Christopher Sadler, Pei Zhang, Margaret Martonosi, Stephen Lyon (Princeton University, USA), Hardware Design Experiences in ZebraNet, ACM SenSys, November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Robert Szewczyk (UCB), Alan Mainwaring (Intel), Joseph Polastre (UCB), David Culler (UCB), An Analysis of a Large Scale Habitat Monitoring Application, ACM SenSys, November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Gyula Simon, Akos Ledeczi ,Miklos Maroti (Vanderbilt), Sensor Network-Based Countersniper System, ACM SenSys, November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Ning Xu (USC), Sumit Rangwala (USC), Krishna Chintalapudi (USC), Deepak Ganesan (UCLA), Alan Broad (Crossbow), Ramesh Govindan (USC), Deborah Estrin (UCLA), A Wireless Sensor Network for Structural Monitoring, ACM SenSys, November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Maxim Batalin (USC), Mohammad Rahimi (UCLA), Yan Yu (UCLA), Steve Liu (UCLA), Gaurav Sukhatme (USC), William Kaiser (UCLA), Call and Response: Experiments in Sampling the Environment, ACM SenSys, November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.
• Alan Mainwaring, Joseph Polastre, Robert Szewczyk, David Culler and John Anderson, Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring, ACM International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications (WSNA '02), Atlanta GA, September 28, 2002.

Assisted Living

• AlarmNet - Assisted living using WSNs (UVA)

Building Automation

See the Building Automation section.

Habitat Monitoring

• http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/network.html
• A. Mainwaring, J. Polastre, R. Szewczyk, D. Culler, and J. Anderson. Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring. In WSNA, Atlanta, USA, September 2002.

Industrial Equipment Monitoring

• Robert Adler, Phil Buonadonna, Jasmeet Chhabra, Mick Flanigan, Lakshman Krishnamurthy, Nandakishore Kushalnagar, Lama Nachman, Mark Yarvis (Intel), Design and Deployment of Industrial Sensor Networks: Experiences from the North Sea and a Semiconductor Plant, ACM SenSys, November 2-4, 2005, San Diego, CA.

Structural Health Monitoring

See Structural Health Monitoring Reading List.

Energy Profiling

• Thanos Stathopoulos, Dustin McIntire, W J. Kaiser, The Energy Endoscope: Real-time Detailed Energy Accounting for Wireless Sensor Nodes, Center for Embedded Network Sensing. Technical Reports. Paper 61.
• Simon Kellner, Mario Pink, Detlev Meier, Erik-Oliver Blass Towards a Realistic Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Networks, WONS'08.
• Jacob Sorber, Alexander Kostadinov, Matthew Garber, Matthew Brennan, Mark D. Corner, and Emery D. Berger [Eon: A Language and Runtime System for Perpetual Systems], SenSys'07
• Andreas Lachenmann, Pedro José Marrón, Daniel Minder, Kurt Rothermel, [Meeting Lifetime Goals with Energy Levels], SenSys'07.
• X. Jiang, P. Dutta, D. Culler, I. Stoica, [Micro power meter for energy monitoring of wireless sensor networks at scale], IPSN'07.
• V. Shnayder, M. Hempstead, B. Chen, G. W. Allen, M. Welsh, [Simulating the power consumption of large-scale sensor network applications], SenSys'04.
• D. Jung, T. Teixeira, A. Barton-Sweeney, A. Savvides, Model-Based Design Exploration of Wireless Sensor Node Lifetimes, EWSN'07.
• Prabal Dutta, Mark Feldmeier, Joseph Paradiso, David Culler, Energy Metering for Free: Augmenting Switching Regulators for Real-Time Monitoring, IPSN, SPOTS'08

Hardware

• Imote2
• TelosB

Localization

• Whitehouse, K. and Culler, D. 2006. A robustness analysis of multi-hop ranging-based localization approximations. In Proceedings of the Fifth international Conference on information Processing in Sensor Networks (Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 19 - 21, 2006). IPSN '06. ACM, New York, NY, 317-325. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1127777.1127825

QoS

• G. Zhou, J. Liu, C. Wan, M. Yarvis, and J. Stankovic, BodyQoS: Adaptive and Radio-Agnostic QoS for Body Sensor Networks, Infocom, April 2008.

Middleware

• Gnawali, O., Jang, K., Paek, J., Vieira, M., Govindan, R., Greenstein, B., Joki, A., Estrin, D., and Kohler, E. 2006. The Tenet architecture for tiered sensor networks. In Proceedings of the 4th international Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Boulder, Colorado, USA, October 31 - November 03, 2006). SenSys '06. ACM, New York, NY, 153-166. Downloads: Paper, SenSys PPT, Seminar PPT

• Benjamin Greenstein, Eddie Kohler, Deborah Estrin (UCLA), A Sensor Network Application Construction Kit (SNACK), ACM SenSys, November 3-5, 2004, Baltimore, Maryland.

Toolkits

• V. Prasad, T. Yan, P. Jayachandran, Z. Li, S. Son, J. Stankovic, J. Hansson, T. Abdelzaher, ANDES: An Anaylsis Based Design Tool for Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE RTSS, Dec. 2007.
• Nithya Ramanathan, Kevin Chang, Lewis Girod, Rahul Kapur, Eddie Kohler, Deborah Estrin (UCLA), Sympathy for the Sensor Network Debugger, ACM SenSys, November 2-4, 2005, San Diego, CA.
• Phil Buonadonna, David Gay, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong and Samuel Madden, TASK: Sensor Network in a Box, EWSN'05.