With the increasing demand of wireless body area network (WBAN) for patient monitoring systems, it is necessary to develop efficient energy management systems to either prolong node battery replacement time or to develop batteryless WBAN nodes. In this paper, we introduce an energy harvesting WBAN architecture that combines the energy harvesting system and an adaptable duty cycle adjustment alg...

This paper characterizes phases present in thin Zr films at 773 K of substrate temperature. The effect of pulsed parameters such as pulse frequency, duty cycle and pulse power during the deposition of Zr film on Si(100) at the substrate temperature of 773 K has been studied. Formation of α-phase of zirconium was noticed with (001) preferred orientation at 773 K. Preferred orientation was found ...

GMGear is an equation and knowledge based system that uses an iterative process to generate multiple possible solutions for a gear set design. It evaluates and recommends the best gear set to meet performance requirements, geometric constraints and manufacturing considerations. Performance requirements include input torque and speed, gear ratio, weight, noise and duty cycle life. Geometry const...

This paper focuses on studying the impacts of two important factors that have been once ignored in localization: 1) duty-cycle of sensor nodes and 2) DOI (degree of irregularity) in radio irregularity. It reveals the fact that a smaller DOI can help to increase the localization accuracy in Distance-Vector (DV) based localization, e.g., HCRL. But, waking up more sensor nodes cannot always help t...

Jitter is a variation in a waveform’s timing. The timing variation of the period, duty cycle, frequency, etc. can be measured and compared to an average of multiple periods, or can be measured as a variation from one period to the next. A jitter measurement result will typically consist of a count of the number of periods evaluated over the selected time interval, a measurement of the highest v...

The capacity for normative frameworks to capture the essential features of interactions between components in open architectures suggests they might also be of assistance in an early, rapid prototyping phase of system development, helping to refine concepts, identify actors, explore policies and evaluate feasibility. As an exercise to examine this thesis, we investigate the concept of the wirel...

Sparse wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are emerging as an effective solution for a wide range of applications, especially for environmental monitoring. In many scenarios, a moderate number of sparsely deployed nodes can be sufficient to get the required information about the sensed phenomenon. To this end, special mobile elements, i.e. mobile data collectors (MDCs), can be used to get data samp...

MAC protocols for multi-hop WSNs have to address the challenge of coordinating duty-cycling transmitters with duty-cycling receivers. All the suggested protocols can be classified into three basic paradigms: the synchronization, the preamble and the beaconing paradigm. In this paper, we discuss the suitability of the three paradigms in the context of Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (...

In our study, we accomplished human walking motion in 2D, using a biped model with simple bar-like legs, and reciprocal leg stretch-contraction motion. Although extremely simple, this model possesses common characteristics to that of human biped walking, such as normal step length, duty factor, and reaction force patterns. We found that, by using additional stretchcontraction mechanisms to the ...