might be deluded into the belief that he was overhearing a conversation between two different individuals. Many such cases are regarded and published as cases of dual brain action without there being an iota of proof for the statement. They are the outcome of purely delusional states, and the patient is always in touch with and in full consciousness of his surroundings. Typical cases are rarely...

Many routing protocols have been designed for Ad Hoc networks. However, most of these kinds of protocols are not able to react fast enough to maintain routing. In the paper, we propose a new protocol that repairs the broken route by using information provided by nodes overhearing the main route communication. When links go down, our protocol intelligently replaces these failed links or nodes wi...

In this paper, we propose a traffic reduction method using overhearing of wireless communications in wireless sensor networks, which is an extension of our previous method. In the extended method, each node autonomously determines the temporal redundancy of its reading by applying a lightweight interpolation based on the readings acquired by itself before determining the spatial redundancy acco...

In this paper we evaluate the effect of power control on the lifetime of wireless sensor networks that are equipped with fixed energy resources. We assume a data collection traffic pattern where all sensor nodes forward data to a centralized base station (sink). Asynchronous low power listening is assumed, which significantly reduces energy wastage by utilizing sleep cycles of the radio. In suc...

ZigBee is defined to support low-rate wireless personal area networks (WPANs). It supports tree and mesh routing. Observing that both routing mechanisms have their pros and cons, this paper proposes a Self-Learning Routing (SLR) protocol, which inherits the low overhead of tree routing and the path efficiency of mesh routing. SLR contains an overhearing and a caching mechanism. It does not rely...

In mobile ad hoc networks, common mobility during the communication of data causes route failure which results in path rediscovery. In this, we suggest strategic routing topology for route resurgence by congestion endurance in Mobile Ad hoc Networks. In this topology, every source and destination pair establishes manifold paths in the single route discovery and they are cached in their route ca...

In geographical routing, each node takes the data forwarding decision based on the location information of its one-hop neighbors. Dissemination of location information is the key function of the geographic routing. The location error due to the node mobility models has direct impact on the geographical routing. Node mobility is a great challenge to the beacon based location broadcasting schemes...

Wireless sensor networks and embedded systems are becoming commonplace in many fields of research. However, sensor nodes are generally powered by batteries which provide a limited amount of power, and it is often difficult to recharge or replace the batteries. Therefore, power aware and power efficient protocols at each layer of the communications are very important for wireless sensor networks...