B-LEACH: A Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks based on Bacterial Foraging Algorithm Bhavana Adiga Abstract: Wireless sensor networks [WSN] are popular as they are potentially low cost solution to various real world challenges. Environment is monitored by the autonomous…
Security against Physical Attacks Using Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs)
Few years ago, sophisticated physical and aggressive attacks have evolved to recover secrets from integrated circuits. This poses a threat to smart cards, RFID tags, FPGA implementations, WSN and many other applications which rely on secrets stored inside a digital…
Function–Based Security in RFID Systems
Physically Unclonable Function–Based Security and Privacy in RFID Systems. [gview file=”http://www.wsnmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/rfid.pdf”]
IoT Wireless Sensors and the Problem of Short Battery Life
Abstract: Wireless sensors are going to introduce huge changes to monitoring environmental parameters and industrial installations. Today, sensor installation and wiring constraints block widespread adoption. With battery-powered devices, the Internet of Things can become a true reality — as soon…
DARPA Robotics Challenge- MIT researchers in Teleoperation
The final round of competition in the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) contest to design control systems for a humanoid robot that could climb a ladder, remove debris, drive a utility vehicle, and perform several other tasks related…
Detecting Leaks with Robots, Wireless Sensors
Professor Youcef-Toumi and Whittle are each working to increase the world’s water supply by decreasing water loss through leaks. According to the on-going research, one way to increase the supply of water for cities and regions is simply to waste…