ART-WiSe - Publications

Thesis

Manish Batsa
Supporting Different QoS Levels in Multiple-Cluster Wireless Sensor Networks
MSc Thesis in Computer Science and Engineering, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee, September 2009 (defended January 2010).

Ricardo Severino
On the use of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee for Time-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Network Applications
MSc Thesis, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, School of Engineering, October 2008. BEST EWSN/CONET MSc THESIS AWARD, 2009. http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/events/ewsn-2009-awards/

Andre Cunha
On the use of IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee as federating communication protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks
MSc Thesis, University of Porto, Faculty of Engineering, September 2007.

Skender Ben Attia
Fault-Tolerance Mechanisms for Zigbee Wireless Sensor Networks
MSc Thesis, SupCom, Tunis, Tunisia, HURRAY-TR-070710, July 2007

Anneleen Van Nieuwenhuyse
On the use of the ZigBee protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks
MSc Thesis, Kaho Sint–Lieven University, Gent, Belgium, HURRAY-TR-060603, June 2006.

Melek Attia
Collision-Free Beacon Scheduling Mechanisms for IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
MSc Thesis, SupCom, Tunis, Tunisia, HURRAY-TR-060604, June 2006.

Talks

Mário Alves
Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Networks: towards the eQualiSer…
Seminar at the First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks - SensorNets 2009 (http://www.sensornets-school.org/), Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-21, 2009.

Anis Koubâa
Engineering IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee Wireless Sensor Networks
Seminar at the First International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks - SensorNets 2009 (http://www.sensornets-school.org/), Monastir, Tunisia, December 17-21, 2009.

Mário Alves
The wireless sensor networks standards and COTS landscape: can we get QoS and “calm technology”?
Tutorial at the 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN'09), February 11th, Cork, Ireland. Summary and author bio at: http://www.ewsn.org/tutorial.html

Mário Alves
Enabling ubiquitous computing and cyber-physical systems with wireless sensor/actuator networks: what is at stake?
Seminar in the GII doctoral school for PhD students in Computer Science (http://gii2008.dei.polimi.it/), in L'Aquila, Italy, 4/SEP/2008.

Mário Alves
Guaranteeing QoS in large-scale distributed embedded systems using standard and COTS technologies: ongoing research at IPP-HURRAY
Seminar in the GII doctoral school for PhD students in Computer Science (http://gii2008.dei.polimi.it/), in L'Aquila, Italy, 4/SEP/2008.

Book Chapters

The CONET Consortium
Cooperating Objects Roadmap 2009
1st Edition Logos Verlag, June 2009. Main contributions: Sections 3.3, 6.1.3 and 6.2.3. Available for download at http://www.cooperating-objects.eu/roadmap/download/

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
IEEE 802.15.4: a Federating Communication Protocol for Time-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks
Chapter of the book "Sensor Networks and Configurations: Fundamentals, Techniques, Platforms, and Experiments", Springer-Verlag, Germany, pp. 19-49, January 2007.

International Journals

A. Koubâa, R. Severino, M. Alves, E. Tovar
Improving Quality-of-Service in Wireless Sensor Networks by mitigating hidden-node collisions
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Special Issue on Real-Time and Embedded Networked Systems, Volume 5, Number 3, August 2009, pp. 299-313. (IF 2.356, 2008)

Anis Koubâa, André Cunha, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar
TDBS: A Time Division Beacon Scheduling Mechanism for ZigBee Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
Real-Time Systems Journal, Springer, Volume 40, Number 3, December 2008, pp. 321-354.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Energy/Delay Trade-off of the GTS Allocation Mechanism in IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Networks
International Journal on Communication Systems, special issue on Energy-Efficient Network Protocols and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks, Vol. 20, No. 7, pp. 791-808, John Wiley & Sons, July 2007.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar, Andre Cunha
An Implicit GTS Allocation Mechanism in IEEE 802.15.4: theory and practice
Real-Time Systems Journal, Volume 39, Numbers 1-3, pp. 169-204, Springer, August 2008. Published on-line: 21/NOV/2007.

International Conferences and Workshops

N. Baccour, A. Koubâa, H. Youssef, M. Jamâa, D. Rosario, M. Alves, L. Becker
F-LQE: A Fuzzy Link Quality Estimator for Wireless Sensor Networks
7th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 2010), Coimbra, Portugal, Feb 17-19, 2010

N. Baccour, A. Koubâa, M. Jamâa, H. Youssef, M. Zuniga, M. Alves
A Comparative Simulation Study of Link Quality Estimators in Wireless Sensor Networks
17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS'09), Imperial College London, UK, September 21-23, 2009. Selected (top 20%) to be published as an *** Extended Paper ***

Anis Koubâa, Ricardo Severino, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
H-NAMe: A Hidden-Node Avoidance Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks
8th IFAC International Conference on Fieldbuses and Networks in Industrial and Embedded Systems (FET'09), Ansan, Republic of Korea, May 2009.

Petr Jurčík, Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Real-Time Communications over Cluster-Tree Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink Behaviour
14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2008), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 25-27/AUG/2008.

Andre Cunha, Anis Koubaa, Ricardo Severino, Mario Alves
Open-ZB: an open-source implementation of the IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee protocol stack on TinyOS
4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS´07), Pisa, Italy, October 2007, pp.1-12.

A. Koubaa, A. Cunha,M. Alves
A Time Division Beacon Scheduling Mechanism for IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2007), Pisa (Italy), July 2007, pp. 125-135. *********** BEST PAPER AWARD ***********.

Petr Jurcik, Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar, Zdenek Hanzalek
A Simulation Model for the IEEE 802.15.4 Protocol: Delay/Throughput Evaluation of the GTS Mechanism
15th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS´07), Istanbul, Turkey, October 2007, pp. 109-116.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Melek Attia, Anneleen Van Nieuwenhuyse
Collision-Free Beacon Scheduling Mechanisms for IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
7th International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN´07), Santander, Spain, May 2007.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Modeling and Worst-Case Dimensioning of Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
27th IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium (RTSS´T06), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2006, pp. 412-421, IEEE Computer Society.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
i-GAME: An Implicit GTS Allocation Mechanism in IEEE 802.15.4
18th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS´06), Dresden, Germany, July 2006, pp. 183-192, IEEE Computer Society.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Bilel Nefzi, Ye-Qiong Song
Improving the IEEE 802.15.4 Slotted CSMA/CA MAC for Time-Critical Events in Wireless Sensor Networks
5th International Workshop on Real-Time Networks (RTNƒ?T06), Satellite Workshop to ECRTS´06, Dresden, Germany, July 2006.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
A Comprehensive Simulation Study of Slotted CSMA/CA for IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks
5th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS´06), Torino, Italy, June 2006, pp. 183-192.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
GTS Allocation Analysis in IEEE 802.15.4 for Real-Time Wireless Sensor Networks
14th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS´06), special track on Wireless Sensor Networks, Rhodes Island, Greece, April 2006.

Technical Reports

Petr Jurčík, Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Worst-case Dimensioning of Cluster-Tree Sensor Networks with Mobile Sink Behaviour
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-080401, May 2008

Anis Koubaa, Hassen Sallay, MArio Alves
Real-Time Tracking and Reporting of Dynamic Events in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks
IPP-HURRAY! Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-070503, May 2007

Andre Cunha, Mario Alves, Anis Koubaa
Implementation Details of the Time Division Frame Scheduling Approach for Zigbee Cluster-Tree Networks
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-070102, Jan 2007

Andrw Cunha, Mario Alves, Anis Koubaa
An IEEE 802.15.4 protocol implementation(in nesC/TinyOS): Reference Guide v1.2
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-061106, Nov 2006

Melek Attia, Anis Koubaa, MArio Alves, Anneleen Van Nieuwenhuyse
Collision-Free Beacon Scheduling Mechanisms for IEEE 802.15.4/Zigbee Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-061104, Nov 2006

Ricardo Severino, MArio Alves
On a Test-bed Application for the ART-WiSe Framework
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-0601103, Nov 2006

Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Modeling and Worst-Case Dimensioning of Cluster-Tree Wireless Sensor Networks: proofs and computation details
IPP-HURRAY! Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-060601, June 2006.

Anis Koubaa, MArio Alves, Eduardo Tovar
IEEE 802.15.4: a Federating Communication Protocol for Time-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-060202, Feb 2006

Anis Koubaa, Eduardo Tovar, Mario Alves
Energy/Delay Trade-off of the GTS Allocation Mechanism in IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Networks
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-060103, Jan 2006

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Lower Protocol Layers for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-051101, Nov 2005.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
A Real-Time Sensor Network Architecture with Power-Efficient Resource Reservation in IEEE 802.15.4
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-050801, August 2005.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves, Eduardo Tovar
IEEE 802.15.4 for Wireless Sensor Networks: A Technical Overview
IPP-HURRAY Technical Report, HURRAY-TR-050702, July 2005.

Short Papers (WiP and Poster Sessions)

Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubâa, Petr Jurčik, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar
An overview of Open-ZB.net - an open-source toolset for IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee
Abstract
Poster Session of the First European TinyOS Technology Exchange (ETTX'09), Cork, Ireland, February, 2009.

Ricardo Severino, Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves, Eduardo Tovar
Demonstrating H-NAMe - A Hidden-Node Avoidance Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Poster/Demos Session of the First European TinyOS Technology Exchange (ETTX'09), Cork, Ireland, February, 2009

P. Pagano, M. Chitnis, A. Romano, G. Lipari, R. Severino, M. Alves, P. Sousa, E. Tovar
ERIKA and OpenZB: an implementation for real-time wireless networking
24th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2009), Poster Session, Honolulu, Hawaii, March, 2009.

Joao Leal, Andre Cunha, Mario Alves, Anis Koubaa
On a IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee to IEEE 802.11 Gateway for the ART-WiSe Architecture
Work-in-Progress session of the 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA07), Patras, Greece, September 2007.

Skender Ben Attia, André Cunha, Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves
Fault-Tolerance Mechanisms for Zigbee Wireless Sensor Networks
Poster
Work-in-Progress (WiP) Session of the 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2007), Pisa (Italy), July 2007.

Ricardo Severino, Mario Alves
Engineering a Search and Rescue Application with a Wireless Sensor Network-based Localization Mechanism
Poster
Poster Session of 8th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM07), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007.

Mario Alves, Anis Koubaa, Andre Cunha, Ricardo Severino, Emmanuel Lomba
On the Development of a Test-Bed Application for the ART-WiSe Architecture
Work-in-Progress (WiP) session of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 06), Dresden, Germany, July 2006.

Anis Koubaa, Mario Alves
A Two-Tiered Architecture for Real-Time Communications in Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks: Research Challenges
Poster
Work-in-Progress session of the 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time System, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, also available as IRISA Research Report, number PI-1723, pp. 33-36, ftp://ftp.irisa.fr/techreports/2005/PI-1723.pdf

National Conferences (with referees)

André Cunha, Ricardo Severino, Nuno Pereira, Anis Koubâa, Mário Alves
ZigBee over TinyOS: implementation and experimental challenges
8th Portuguese Conference on Automatic Control (CONTROLO’2008), Invited Session on "Real-Time Communications: from theory to applications", Vila Real, Portugal, 21-23/JUL/2008.

Anis Koubaa, MArio Alves, Eduardo Tovar
IEEE 802.15.4: a wireless communication technology for large-scale ubiquitous computing applications
Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (CSMU 2006), Guimaraes, June 29-30, 2006