News tagged with network nodes

Researchers boost efficiency of multi-hop wireless networks

Multi-hop wireless networks can provide data access for large and unconventional spaces, but they have long faced significant limits on the amount of data they can transmit. Now researchers from North Carolina State University ...

Technology / Telecom

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Trains’ vibrations could provide power for monitoring tunnels

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traffic tunnels are often built in some of the most rugged and remote areas, which subjects them to extreme environmental forces while making them difficult to access. Ideally, the structural ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Greener disaster alerts

New software allows wireless sensor networks to run at much lower energy, according to researchers writing in the International Journal of Sensor Networks. The technology could improve efficiency for hurricane and other ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Monitoring your health with your mobile phone

Belgian Imec, together with TASS software professionals have developed a mobile heart monitoring system that allows to view your electrocardiogram on an Android mobile phone.

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Location determines social network influence, study finds

A team of researchers led by Dr. Hernan Makse, professor of physics at The City College of New York (CCNY), has shed new light on the way that information and infectious diseases proliferate across complex networks. Writing ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 29, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Swine Flu vaccination: voluntary system works

(PhysOrg.com) -- Social interaction between neighbours, work colleagues and other communities and social groups makes voluntary vaccination programs for epidemics such as Swine Flu, SARS or Bird Flu a surprisingly ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.

Technology / Engineering

created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

(PhysOrg.com) -- Özlem Durmaz Incel, researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed a spectacular new method that enables wireless sensor networks to function up to ten times more efficiently. Networks ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Greedy Routing Enables Network Navigation Without a 'Map'

(PhysOrg.com) -- How does an e-mail get routed so quickly to its recipient's inbox, or a search query generate relevant Web pages from servers from around the world? Navigating the Internet - or any similar ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (21) | comments 6 feature