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Understanding Link Dynamics in Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamically Steerable Directional Antennas [PDF]
, 2013 By radiating the power in the direction of choice, electronically-switched directional (ESD) antennas can reduce network contention and avoid packet loss.
Hewage, Kasun, +10 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Scientific ReportsThe Western Ghats in Kerala, India, have witnessed a significant rise in landslide occurrences in recent years. More recently in 2024, catastrophic landslides in Wayanad district claimed 336 lives, with 78 people reported missing, underscoring the urgent
Abhilash Sreekumar +3 more
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Unified clustering and communication protocol for wireless sensor networks [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we present an energy-efficient cross layer protocol for providing application specific reservations in wireless senor networks called the “Unified Clustering and Communication Protocol ” (UCCP). Our modular cross layered framework satisfies
Aslam, Nauman +2 more
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han +5 more
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Multisensor Data Fusion for Water Quality Evaluation Using Dempster-Shafer Evidence Theory
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2013 A multisensor data fusion approach for water quality evaluation using Dempster-Shafer evidence theory is presented. To evaluate water quality, each sensor measurement is considered as a piece of evidence. Based on the water quality parameters measured by
Jian Zhou +3 more
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IEEE Photonics Journal, 2015 We examine and demonstrate a biosensor using single-mode tapered fiber that has been immobilized with biorecognition molecules to sense targeted proteins. Interaction of evanescent waves with the external medium surrounding the tapered region produces an
Y. Mustapha Kamil +5 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A gradient‐engineered all‐paper sensor is fabricated by integrating MXene and in situ grown AgNPs within hierarchical cellulose networks. The device breaks the sensitivity–detection range trade‐off through cascaded conductive pathways, enabling ultrahigh pressure sensitivity, humidity–pressure decoupled dual‐mode sensing, and outstanding EMI shielding,
Ao Li +7 more
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Constructing Maximum-Lifetime Data-Gathering Tree in WSNs Based on Compressed Sensing
International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2016 Data gathering is one of the most important operations in many wireless sensor networks (WSNs) applications. In order to implement data gathering, a tree structure rooted at the sink is usually defined. In most wireless sensor networks, nodes are powered
Zhengyu Chen +3 more
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Experimental evaluation of a wireless community mesh network [PDF]
, 2013 Nowadays there are inexpensive WiFi devices that have fostered the deployment of wireless communities. Well known routing protocols used in the Internet do not fit well to time varying characteristic of wireless networks.
Axel Neumann +6 more
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