TL;DR: The authors' prototype sensor network for health monitoring that utilizes off-the-shelf 802.15.4 compliant network nodes and custom-built motion and heart activity sensors is described and the authors' solutions for time synchronization, power management, and on-chip signal processing are presented.

TL;DR: This article surveys recent contributions addressing energy-efficient coverage problems in the context of static wireless sensor networks, and presents various coverage formulations, their assumptions, as well as an overview of the solutions proposed.

TL;DR: This paper formulate the relay node placement in wireless sensor networks as two optimization problems: (i) Connected Relay Node Single Cover (CRNSC) problem and (ii) 2-Connected Relays Node Double Cover (2CRNDC) problem, and presents two polynomial time approximation algorithms to solve the CRNSC problem.

TL;DR: INSENS as discussed by the authors is a tree-structured routing protocol for WSNs that is designed to tolerate damage caused by an intruder who has compromised deployed sensor nodes and is intent on injecting, modifying, or blocking packets.

TL;DR: The main focus of this paper is to survey the collision resolution protocols for multi-access communication and the algorithms that calculate how to minimize reader-to-reader interference.

TL;DR: This paper proposes a solution to automate the task of hardening a network against multi-step intrusions using a formal framework of the minimum network hardening problem, and an improved one-pass algorithm in deriving the logic proposition while avoiding logic loops.

TL;DR: A novel queue graph approach that can fulfill correlation tasks faster than an IDS can report alerts and propose a compact representation for the result of alert correlation, which is a promising solution for administrators to monitor and predict the progress of intrusions and thus to take appropriate countermeasures in a timely manner.

TL;DR: This work investigates statistical anomaly detection algorithms for detecting SYN flooding, which is the most common type of denial of service (DoS) attack, and investigates the tradeoffs among these metrics.

TL;DR: A secure energy-efficient data aggregation protocol called ESPDA (Energy-Efficient Secure Pattern based Data Aggregation), which outperforms conventional data aggregation methods up to 50% in bandwidth efficiency.

TL;DR: This article presents and discusses limitations of recent handoff design architectures and protocols as well as outstanding challenges that still need to be addressed to achieve portable and scalable handoff solutions for continuous connectivity across wireless access networks.

TL;DR: This paper proposes an energy aware dual-path routing scheme for real-time traffic, which balances node energy utilization to increase the network lifetime, takes network congestion into account to reduce the routing delay across the network and increases the reliability of the packets reaching the destination by introducing minimal data redundancy.

TL;DR: EpiChord is a DHT lookup algorithm that demonstrates that it can remove the O(logn)-state-per-node restriction on existing DHT topologies to achieve significantly better lookup performance and resilience using a novel reactive routing state maintenance strategy that amortizes network maintenance costs into existing lookups and by issuing parallel queries.

TL;DR: The extended Directed Diffusion is dubbed energy-efficient differentiated directed diffusion (EDDD), which has the following advantages: (1) differentiates dissemination service for RT and BE traffic, (2) achieves lower delay for RT traffic than DD, (3) exhibits substantially longer network lifetime than DD.

TL;DR: This article surveys recent contributions addressing energy-efficient coverage problems in the context of static wireless sensor networks, and presents various coverage formulations, their assumptions, as well as an overview of the solutions proposed.

TL;DR: This paper argues that most deployed user authentication mechanisms fail to provide protection against man-in-the-middle attacks, even when they run on top of SSL/TLS, and introduces the notion of SSL-TLS session-aware user authentication, and presents different possibilities for implementing it.

TL;DR: A detailed hierarchical routing GMPLS-based framework for provisioning all-optical and opto-electronic multi-domain DWDM networks is presented, which adapts various topology abstraction schemes to improve routing scalability and lower inter-domain blocking probabilities.

TL;DR: It is found that the frequent occurrence of flash flows highly affects the performance of the existing flow-based traffic monitoring systems and this paper examines the characteristics of recent Internet traffic from the perspective of flows.

TL;DR: This work proposes a new energy efficient and fault tolerant protocol for data propagation in wireless sensor networks, the variable transmission range protocol (VTRP), and demonstrates that the protocol achieves significant improvements in energy efficiency and network lifetime.

TL;DR: Extensive simulation results show that the proposed framework combining RVI and the movement-adaptive report scheduling algorithm reduces the localization error and total number of the transmitted messages up to half of those of the existing approaches.

TL;DR: The characterization and modeling of packet loss, delay and delay jitter can be used by the research community as input to various problems related to the design and evaluation of network- and application-layer mechanisms.

TL;DR: An analytical model is developed to study the performance of plain- and probabilistic flooding in terms of its reliability and reachability in delivering packets.

TL;DR: A QoS supporting scheme is developed for dynamic traffic conditions by controlling data generating rates at individual clusters in a cluster based WSN and an explicit solution on the energy distribution at different clusters in the WSN is investigated based on an optimal energy allocation criterion.

TL;DR: This paper provides a comparative performance analysis of the three variants of epidemic algorithms in terms of message delivery rate, average message latency, and messaging overhead on the network.

TL;DR: This paper presents secure password-based protocols for remote user authentication, password change, and session key establishment over insecure networks that do not require the use of any additional private- or public-key infrastructure.

TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to contribute to such a terminology, to summarize the state-of-the-art, and to highlight and discuss some grand challenges for CNs that are identified.

TL;DR: In this paper, a step-by-step methodology is presented to predict the number of VoIP calls that can be sustained by an existing network while satisfying QoS requirements of all network services and leaving adequate capacity for future growth.

TL;DR: A unified framework for achieving QoS multicast trees using intelligent computational methods and evaluates the performance of these three algorithms on a small-scale real-world multimedia communication network and a randomly generated large-scale network.

TL;DR: Simulation results show that ECS successfully achieves its targets at reducing the cluster overlapping, maintaining a stable cluster structure as well as producing moderate clustering overheads.

TL;DR: An integrated adaptive wireless transmission system for WSN to meet the QoS requirements in an energy-aware fashion and the ability to adapt to time-varying delivery quality requirements is tested.