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Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: a rule-based approach

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The research reported in this paper addresses the problem of energy conservation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It proposes concepts and techniques to extract environmental information that are useful for controlling sensor operations, in order to enable sensor nodes to conserve their energy, and consequently prolong the network lifetime. These concepts and techniques are consolidated in a generic framework we term CASE: Context Awareness in Sensing Environments framework. CASE targets energy conservation at the network level. A subset framework of CASE, we term CASE Compact, targets energy conservation at the sensor node level. In this paper, we elaborate on these two frameworks, elucidate the requirements for them to operate together within a WSN and evaluate the applications they can be applied to for energy conservation.

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  1. Centre for Distributed Systems and Software Engineering, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

    Suan Khai Chong & Shonali Krishnaswamy

  2. School of Computing, University of Portmouth, Portsmouth, UK

    Mohamed Medhat Gaber

  3. Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Latrobe University, Melbourne, Australia

    Seng Wai Loke

  4. Centrelink IT, Brisbane, Australia

    Suan Khai Chong

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Chong, S.K., Gaber, M.M., Krishnaswamy, S. et al. Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: a rule-based approach. Knowl Inf Syst 28, 579–614 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10115-011-0380-x

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