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Next century challenges: scalable coordination in sensor networks
MobiCom '99 Proceedings of the 5th annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Wireless integrated network sensors
Communications of the ACM
Directed diffusion: a scalable and robust communication paradigm for sensor networks
MobiCom '00 Proceedings of the 6th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Distributed sensor network for real time tracking
Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Autonomous agents
Exposure in wireless Ad-Hoc sensor networks
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Dynamic fine-grained localization in Ad-Hoc networks of sensors
Proceedings of the 7th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
Localized algorithms in wireless ad-hoc networks: location discovery and sensor exposure
MobiHoc '01 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking & computing
Calibration as parameter estimation in sensor networks
WSNA '02 Proceedings of the 1st ACM international workshop on Wireless sensor networks and applications
PicoRadio: Ad-Hoc Wireless Networking of Ubiquitous Low-Energy Sensor/Monitor Nodes
WVLSI '00 Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Annual Workshop on VLSI (WVLSI'00)
Coding Theory Framework for Target Location in Distributed Sensor Networks
ITCC '01 Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing
Multiresolution data integration using mobile agents in distributedsensor networks
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part C: Applications and Reviews
The coverage problem in a wireless sensor network
WSNA '03 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM international conference on Wireless sensor networks and applications
Structures for In-Network Moving Object Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
BROADNETS '04 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Broadband Networks
Efficient In-Network Moving Object Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
The coverage problem in a wireless sensor network
Mobile Networks and Applications
Quick convergecast in ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 tree-based wireless sensor networks
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Distributed protocols for ensuring both coverage and connectivity of a wireless sensor network
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
A Distributed Query Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Evaluation of impact factors on RSS accuracy for localization and tracking applications
Proceedings of the 5th ACM international workshop on Mobility management and wireless access
Sensor coverage in wireless ad hoc sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Emergency guiding and monitoring applications in indoor 3D environments by wireless sensor networks
International Journal of Sensor Networks
Covering of problem in wireless sensor networks
TELE-INFO'09 Proceedings of the 8th Wseas international conference on Telecommunications and informatics
An efficient location tracking structure for wireless sensor networks
Computer Communications
On the lifetime of large scale sensor networks
Computer Communications
Collaborative signal and information processing in wireless sensor networks: a review
SMC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
Exploring group moving pattern for an energy-constrained object tracking sensor network
PAKDD'07 Proceedings of the 11th Pacific-Asia conference on Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining
An adaptive dynamic cluster-based protocol for target tracking in wireless sensor networks
APWeb/WAIM'07 Proceedings of the joint 9th Asia-Pacific web and 8th international conference on web-age information management conference on Advances in data and web management
Model-based object tracking in wireless sensor networks
Wireless Networks
Minimum perimeter coverage of query regions in a heterogeneous wireless sensor network
Information Sciences: an International Journal
NEW2AN'11/ruSMART'11 Proceedings of the 11th international conference and 4th international conference on Smart spaces and next generation wired/wireless networking
Trimming the tree: tailoring adaptive huffman coding to wireless sensor networks
EWSN'10 Proceedings of the 7th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
Knowledge-based multi-criteria optimization to support indoor positioning
Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
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The wireless sensor network is an emerging technology that may greatly facilitate human life by providing ubiquitous sensing, computing, and communication capability, through which people can more closely interact with the environment wherever he/she goes. To be context-aware, one of the central issues in sensor networks is location tracking, whose goal is to monitor the roaming path of a moving object. While similar to the location-update problem in PCS networks, this problem is more challenging in two senses: (1) there are no central control mechanism and backbone network in such environment, and (2) the wireless communication bandwidth is very limited. In this paper, we propose a novel protocol based on the mobile agent paradigm. Once a new object is detected, a mobile agent will be initiated to track the roaming path of the object. The agent is mobile since it will choose the sensor closest to the object to stay. The agent may invite some nearby slave sensors to cooperatively position the object and inhibit other irrelevant (i.e., farther) sensors from tracking the object.As a result, the communication and sensing overheads are greatly reduced. Our prototyping of the location-tracking mobile agent based on IEEE 802.11b NICs and our experimental experiences are also reported.