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Sensors, Volume 11, Issue 5

May 2011 - 55 articles

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Articles (55)

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
12,232 Views
27 Pages

RUASN: A Robust User Authentication Framework for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Pardeep Kumar,
  • Amlan Jyoti Choudhury,
  • Mangal Sain,
  • Sang-Gon Lee and
  • Hoon-Jae Lee

4 May 2011

In recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been considered as a potential solution for real-time monitoring applications and these WSNs have potential practical impact on next generation technology too. However, WSNs could become a threat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
163 Citations
9,773 Views
14 Pages

3 May 2011

As wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly being deployed in some important applications, it becomes imperative that we consider application requirements in in-network processes. We intend to use a WSN to aid information querying and navigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
11,592 Views
22 Pages

3 May 2011

Technological obstacles to the use of rotary-type swing arm actuators to actuate optical pickup modules in small-form-factor (SFF) disk drives stem from a hinge’s skewed actuation, subsequently inducing off-axis aberrations and deteriorating optical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
9,272 Views
10 Pages

3 May 2011

A near infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) method for rapid determination of nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium in diverse meadow grasses was developed with a view towards utilizing this material for biogas production and organic fertilizer. NI...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
11,135 Views
18 Pages

Application of an E-Tongue to the Analysis of Monovarietal and Blends of White Wines

  • Manuel Gutiérrez,
  • Andreu Llobera,
  • Andrey Ipatov,
  • Jordi Vila-Planas,
  • Santiago Mínguez,
  • Stefanie Demming,
  • Stephanus Büttgenbach,
  • Fina Capdevila,
  • Carme Domingo and
  • Cecilia Jiménez-Jorquera

3 May 2011

This work presents a multiparametric system capable of characterizing and classifying white wines according to the grape variety and geographical origin. Besides, it quantifies specific parameters of interest for quality control in wine. The system,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,070 Views
17 Pages

3 May 2011

Single capacitance sensors are sensitive to soil property variability. The objectives of this study were to: (i) establish site-specific laboratory calibration equations of three single capacitance sensors (EC-20, EC-10, and ML2x) for tropical soils,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
77 Citations
12,662 Views
24 Pages

3 May 2011

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have emerged as a viable technology for a vast number of applications, including health care applications. To best support these health care applications, WSN technology can be adopted for the design of practical Healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
106 Citations
10,372 Views
23 Pages

2 May 2011

This paper proposes a hybrid crop classifier for polarimetric synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images. The feature sets consisted of span image, the H/A/α decomposition, and the gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) based texture features. Then, the f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
470 Citations
28,451 Views
23 Pages

Electronic Noses and Tongues: Applications for the Food and Pharmaceutical Industries

  • Elizabeth A. Baldwin,
  • Jinhe Bai,
  • Anne Plotto and
  • Sharon Dea

2 May 2011

The electronic nose (e-nose) is designed to crudely mimic the mammalian nose in that most contain sensors that non-selectively interact with odor molecules to produce some sort of signal that is then sent to a computer that uses multivariate statisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
347 Citations
16,011 Views
13 Pages

A Secured Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Elliptic Curves Cryptography

  • Hsiu-Lien Yeh,
  • Tien-Ho Chen,
  • Pin-Chuan Liu,
  • Tai-Hoo Kim and
  • Hsin-Wen Wei

2 May 2011

User authentication is a crucial service in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that is becoming increasingly common in WSNs because wireless sensor nodes are typically deployed in an unattended environment, leaving them open to possible hostile network...

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