Detalhes
Nome
Francisco VasquesCluster
EnergiaDesde
01 janeiro 2015
Nacionalidade
PortugalCentro
Centro de Sistemas de EnergiaContactos
+351222094230
francisco.vasques@inesctec.pt
2018
Autores
Valle, OT; Budke, G; Montez, C; Moraes, R; Vasques, F;
Publicação
International Journal of Communication Systems
Abstract
2018
Autores
Rodrigues, L; Leao, E; Montez, C; Moraes, R; Portugal, P; Vasques, F;
Publicação
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used to support monitoring activities in a wide range of applications and communication environments. Its usage in extreme conditions, in what concerns pressure, temperature, and humidity, must be carefully assessed before the network deployment. In particular, the temperature variations have a direct impact upon the behavior of WSNs through the batteries of sensor nodes. These electrochemical devices are highly susceptible to temperature variations, which modifies the offered effective charge capacity. In this context, it is difficult to estimate the behavior of batteries over time, impairing the extraction of relevant information for energy-aware approaches. Such information, particularly battery state of charge, voltage, and lifetime, is often used by WSN simulators to predict the communication behavior in different scenarios. Nevertheless, WSN simulators generally use simplistic battery models, causing significant deviations in simulation results when compared with actualWSN deployments. This paper describes the implementation of the Temperature-Dependent Kinetic Battery Model (T-KiBaM) in the Castalia simulator, which enables a considerable improvement of the accuracy of simulations in communication environments with different temperature conditions. An experimental assessment has been performed with temperature variations over time to validate the usage of the T-KiBaM battery model. The experimental results indicate that the T-KiBaM model is quite accurate when estimating battery behavior under both different temperature set points and different temperature variations.
2018
Autores
Jesus, TC; Portugal, P; Vasques, F; Costa, DG;
Publicação
Sensors (Switzerland)
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks have been considered as an effective solution to a wide range of applications due to their prominent characteristics concerning information retrieving and distributed processing. When visual information can be also retrieved by sensor nodes, applications acquire a more comprehensive perception of monitored environments, fostering the creation of wireless visual sensor networks. As such networks are being more often considered for critical monitoring and control applications, usually related to catastrophic situation prevention, security enhancement and crises management, fault tolerance becomes a major expected service for visual sensor networks. A way to address this issue is to evaluate the system dependability through quantitative attributes (e.g., reliability and availability), which require a proper modeling strategy to describe the system behavior. That way, in this paper, we propose a methodology to model and evaluate the dependability of wireless visual sensor networks using Fault Tree Analysis and Markov Chains. The proposed modeling strategy considers hardware, battery, link and coverage failures, besides considering routing protocols on the network communication behavior. The methodology is automated by a framework developed and integrated with the SHARPE (Symbolic Hierarchical Automated Reliability and Performance Evaluator) tool. The achieved results show that this methodology is useful to compare different network implementations and the corresponding dependability, enabling the uncovering of potentially weak points in the network behavior. © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
2018
Autores
Laurindo, S; Moraes, R; Nassiffe, R; Montez, C; Vasques, F;
Publicação
Sensors
Abstract
2018
Autores
Andrade, ATC; Siedersberger, D; Montez, C; Moraes, R; Leao, E; Vasques, F;
Publicação
2018 IEEE 16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS (INDIN)
Abstract
Topology formation in wireless sensor networks is usually done assuming just either the geographical proximity between nodes or the signal strength of communication. In this paper, a heuristic called DbCTF is proposed to guide the formation of cluster-tree networks, which also considers data clustering techniques. The use of DbCTF allows the setup of a data-based topology in the cluster-tree, and also the prioritisation of monitored regions in which relevant events may be occurring. The performance of DbCTF has been compared with a state-of-the-art algorithm, for the specific case of a classical WSN laboratory experiment. The simulation assessment revealed that the cluster-tree formed by DbCTF was able to reduce by more than 20% the average communication delay of message streams conveying critical data, and was also able to increase by more than 35% the average lifetime of the network.
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