Survey on unmanned aerial vehicle networks for civil applications: A communications viewpoint

S Hayat, E Yanmaz, R Muzaffar - … Communications Surveys & …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The days where swarms of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) will occupy our skies are fast
approaching due to the introduction of cost-efficient and reliable small aerial vehicles and …

Topology control in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks

P Santi - ACM computing surveys (CSUR), 2005 - dl.acm.org
Topology Control (TC) is one of the most important techniques used in wireless ad hoc and
sensor networks to reduce energy consumption (which is essential to extend the network …

A survey on topology control in wireless sensor networks: Taxonomy, comparative study, and open issues

M Li, Z Li, AV Vasilakos - Proceedings of the IEEE, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The wireless sensor network (WSN) technology spawns a surge of unforeseen applications.
The diversity of these emerging applications represents the great success of this technology …

An Aloha protocol for multihop mobile wireless networks

F Baccelli, B Blaszczyszyn… - IEEE transactions on …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An Aloha-type access control mechanism for large mobile, multihop, wireless networks is
defined and analyzed. This access scheme is designed for the multihop context, where it is …

The critical transmitting range for connectivity in sparse wireless ad hoc networks

P Santi, DM Blough - IEEE transactions on Mobile Computing, 2003 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We analyze the critical transmitting range for connectivity in wireless ad hoc networks. More
specifically, we consider the following problem: assume n nodes, each capable of …

Deploying sensor networks with guaranteed capacity and fault tolerance

JL Bredin, ED Demaine, MT Hajiaghayi… - Proceedings of the 6th …, 2005 - dl.acm.org
We consider the problem of deploying or repairing a sensor network to guarantee a
specified level of multi-path connectivity (k-connectivity) between all nodes. Such a …

Algorithmic aspects of topology control problems for ad hoc networks

EL Lloyd, R Liu, MV Marathe, R Ramanathan… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2002 - dl.acm.org
Topology control problems are concerned with the assignment of power values to the nodes
of an ad hoc network so that the power assignment leads to a graph topology satisfying …

Canny edge detection on NVIDIA CUDA

Y Luo, R Duraiswami - 2008 IEEE Computer Society …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Canny edge detector is a very popular and effective edge feature detector that is used
as a pre-processing step in many computer vision algorithms. It is a multi-step detector …

The k-neigh protocol for symmetric topology control in ad hoc networks

DM Blough, M Leoncini, G Resta, P Santi - Proceedings of the 4th ACM …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
We propose an approach to topology control based on the principle of maintaining the
number of neighbors of every node equal to or slightly below a specific value k. The …

Fault tolerant deployment and topology control in wireless networks

XY Li, PJ Wan, Y Wang, CW Yi - … of the 4th ACM international symposium …, 2003 - dl.acm.org
This paper investigate fault tolerance for wireless ad hoc networks. We consider a large-
scale of wireless networks whose nodes are distributed randomly in a unit-area square …