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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1951/60223
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11401/71481
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.en_US
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dc.publisherThe Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
dc.typeDissertation
dcterms.abstractRecent advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology, wireless communications, and digital electronics have enabled the development of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor nodes that are small in size and communicate untethered over short distances. Networking together hundreds or thousands of wireless sensor nodes allows users to accurately monitor a remote environment by intelligently combining data from the individual nodes. Such networks require robust wireless communication protocols that are energy efficient, data transmission efficient and support long network lifetime. In this Ph.D. dissertation, we analyzed and implemented the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol, a leading protocol architecture for wireless sensor networks. LEACH combines the ideas of energy-efficient cluster-based routing and media access together with application-specific data aggregation to achieve a desired performance. In an effort to improve the power consumption and network lifetime, we proposed Dynamic LEACH, or D-LEACH, a data-adaptive hierarchical protocol based on LEACH. The main idea of D-LEACH is to dynamically change the likelihood for each node to send data to the base station, based on the similarity of the data within each node cluster. We implemented D-LEACH and LEACH on the TinyOS platform on hardware motes, ran experiments to analyze D-LEACH performance, and compared against other major protocols. The analysis shows that in many cases D-LEACH achieves a superior performance when compared to LEACH and XMesh protocols, in terms of power consumption, total data received, and network lifetime. In the second part of this dissertation, we proposed and implemented a vital sign monitoring system based on wireless sensor network hardware. Our system combines wireless sensor network, vital sign monitoring technologies to monitor users' vital signs and notify relatives and medical personnel of users' status during life threatening situations. The use of wireless sensor network technologies makes it possible to deploy our system in all types of homes and facilities.
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dcterms.contributorTang, Wendy K.en_US
dcterms.contributorTang, Wendy K.Robertazzi, Thomas G.Yu, Dantongen_US
dcterms.contributorDeng, Yuefanen_US
dcterms.contributorNoel, Ericen_US
dcterms.creatorHou, Guofeng
dcterms.dateAccepted2013-05-24T16:38:15Z
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dcterms.dateSubmitted2013-05-24T16:38:15Z
dcterms.dateSubmitted2015-04-24T14:47:43Z
dcterms.descriptionDepartment of Electrical Engineeringen_US
dcterms.extent130 pg.en_US
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dcterms.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/1951/60223
dcterms.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11401/71481
dcterms.issued2011-12-01
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dcterms.publisherThe Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
dcterms.subjectperformance analysis, routing protocols, wireless sensor networks
dcterms.subjectComputer engineering--Computer science--Electrical engineering
dcterms.titleData-Adaptive Hierarchical Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks and Health Monitoring Systems
dcterms.typeDissertation


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