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Cicada: A Highly-Precise Easy-Embedded and Omni-Directional Indoor Location Sensing System
For supporting location-aware computing in indoor environments, the location sensing/positioning system not only need to provide objects’ precise location, but also should own such characteristics as: isotropy...
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Two Energy-Efficient, Timesaving Improvement Mechanisms of Network Reprogramming in Wireless Sensor Network
Loading program code to sensor nodes is a basic function of wireless sensor network. However, it is infeasible to gather all sensor nodes once they are deployed. Thus, network reprogramming is greatly required...
