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      A biologically inspired networking model for wireless sensor networks 

      Charalambous, Charalambos D.; Cui, S. (2010)
      Wireless sensor networks have emerged in strategic applications such as target detection, localization, and tracking, where the large scale renders centralized control prohibitive. In addition, the finite batteries of the ...
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      A Comparative Study of Protocols for Efficient Data Propagation in Smart Dust Networks 

      Chatzigiannakis, Ioannis; Dimitriou, Tassos D.; Mavronicolas, Marios; Nikoletseas, Sotiris E.; Spirakis, Paul G. (2004)
      Smart Dust is comprised of a vast number of ultra-small fully autonomous computing and communication devices, with very restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to accomplish a large sensing task. Smart ...
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      Energy efficient stream-based configurable architecture for embedded platforms 

      Pratas, F.; Tomas, P.; Trancoso, Pedro; Sousa, L. (2012)
      Reconfigurable hardware can be used as an energy and performance efficient co-processing solution to accelerate certain types of applications. To facilitate the design of hardware accelerators we have proposed a methodology ...
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      Genetic algorithms for shortest path routing of autonomous gliders 

      Kahveci, N. E.; Ioannou, Petros A. (2008)
      Onboard power resources pose inevitable limitations on the flight performance of any aerial vehicle regardless of its type, size or mission. Popular soaring techniques recognized to be providing significant energy savings ...
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      Mimicking the bird flocking behavior for controlling congestion in sensor networks 

      Antoniou, Pavlos Ch.; Pitsillides, Andreas; Engelbrecht, A.; Blackwell, T. (2010)
      This study deals with the problem of congestion in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and proposes a robust and self-adaptable nature-inspired congestion control approach for realtime event-based applications. WSNs face ...
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      A network-aware framework for energy-efficient data acquisition in wireless sensor networks 

      Andreou, Panayiotis G.; Zeinalipour-Yazdi, Constantinos D.; Samaras, George S.; Chrysanthis, Panos K. (2014)
      Wireless sensor networks enable users to monitor the physical world at an extremely high fidelity. In order to collect the data generated by these tiny-scale devices, the data management community has proposed the utilization ...
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      Toward energy-aware balancing of mobile graphics 

      Stavrakis, E.; Polychronis, M.; Pelekanos, Nectarios; Artusi, A.; Hadjichristodoulou, P.; Chrysanthou, Yiorgos L. (SPIE, 2015)
      In the area of computer graphics the design of hardware and software has primarily been driven by the need to achieve maximum performance. Energy efficiency was usually neglected, assuming that a stable always-on power ...