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"France were inept at times and were a little arrogant. Argentina put them under a lot of pressure but what did they expect? It's the World Cup."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
"The bars of France have been struck dumb by that result."BBC Sport's Tom Fordyce
2154: The French players look absolutely stunned as they trundle off the field. They do not quite believe what has happened here and they know that no World Cup winner has lost a match in the pool stages. This is a result that will send shockwaves through the sport and surely now it is a matter of time before they are included in the Tri-Nations or the Six Nations. The Argentine players celebrate in style and they deserve it.
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80 mins: FULL-TIME France 12-17 ArgentinaLes Bleus try everything to keep the ball and the match alive - but they are not going anywhere and Argentina force them into another error. Argentina get the penalty but Contepomi misses it. The ball does not cross the dead-ball line and France can attack again. It does not matter though and Argentina hold on for an incredible victory.
78 mins: France wing Christophe Dominici makes a half break but the Pumas are producing super-human efforts in defence. They eventually win a penalty but Felipe Contepomi puts the kick wide. If that had gone over, this game would have been over.
76 mins: Inch by inch, Argentina work their way into the French half. We all know what is coming don't we? Felipe Contepomi tries a drop goal but even though he is not under any pressure, it fails to even reach the posts.
74 mins: It is all a bit scrappy but Argentina will not mind. They really have been pummelled by the French pack this half but the hosts are still behind. Jean-Baptiste Elissalde comes on for France scrum-half Pierre Mignoni.
"That was an awful kick. Michalak will be so miffed by that. It will be so demoralising for the other French players."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
70 mins: Hernandez delivers a very, very tired-looking high ball that actually goes behind him. France collect and charge forward. Corleto flops onto a kick through but he is isolated and concedes the penalty. Michalak then steps up but somehow he misses. That was really bad - the crowd do not really believe it.
68 mins: France desperately try and up the pace but the Argentine players are tackling as if their lives depend on it. The Pumas win the ball and hooker, that's right hooker, Mario Ledesma produces a fine kick to touch.
64 mins: The Pumas blow what could have been the decisive score. Borges cuts Heymans in half and the Frenchman loses the ball, allowing the Pumas to pile forward. Full-half Corleto kicks on and then collects it but his pass to Felipe Contepomi is dropped and a relieved French defence can clear.
62 mins: To the cheers of a Stade de France crowd that have been known to boo him, Michalak comes onto the field to replace the injured Skrela. Immediately everything by France seems to be cleaner and quicker - Argentina are just hanging on in there now.
59 mins: PENALTY France 12-17 Argentina The French forwards keep it tight and a maul rolls its way down the field. Argentina give away the penalty and Skrela makes up for his earlier error to slot it over. The deficit is now five points and scary-looking Sale forward Sebastien Chabal takes the field to replace skipper Fabien Pelous. My word, he really is a man-mountain and the Argentine players will not fancy him charging at them.
56 mins: France get a penalty as an Argentine tackler does not roll away. Skrela steps up to take an easy-looking penalty... and then misses. Oh dear. He looks to the heavens and well he might, that was not good.
"Argentina must not get sloppy and keep kicking the ball away because France can score from 70 or 80 metres out."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
54 mins: Heymans takes a high ball, releases Aurelien Rougerie and the Clermont Auvergne winger streaks his way down the field. Most positive stuff from the hosts.
51 mins: The Stade de France crowd start a rendition of the Marseillaise to try and lift their team. Heymans drops another testing up-and-under underneath his own posts but he recovers and clears.
"That was outstanding defence. How on earth did they manage to keep France out? They must be 'hanging' after that. Deep breaths all round."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
47 mins: Argentina make a rare error from a free kick, booting the ball straight out, and France pile forward. They camp on the line and the forwards take turns to try and get over. Argentina push the hosts backwards though, and can clear their lines when France concede a penalty.
44 mins: France see a lot of early ball in this half but do not really punch their way through the tough and committed Argentine defence.
"Sadly...France will re group after a Laporte blast and win by two scores."vinotackler on 606
41 mins: Argentina start the second half and France immediately try and attack.
2100: I really would not like to be in the French dressing room at the moment. The paint is sure to be peeling off it as Laporte gives his assessment of the half to his players. It is probably going to be a bit like how my wife reacted when I told her that I had gone swimming with our cars keys still in my trunks pocket. Anyone know how I can fix them by the way?
2058: "The crowd are trying to get the French team going with a few chants of "Allez les Bleus" but there is a distinctly nervy edge to proceedings here as we reach half-time. This is not what the majority of them came to see. The hosts are fluffing their opening lines badly, and are lucky to be only eight points adrift."BBC Sport's Bryn Palmer at the Stade de France
HALF-TIME France 9-17 Argentina
"Argentina's gameplan is pretty obvious, it is confrontational and direct and they can go into the break with their heads held high. France have a lot of work to do. I do not think Skrela will continue at fly-half in the second half - it will be Michalak."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
40 mins: PENALTY France 9-17 Argentina Spreadbury misses what seems a pretty clear forward pass by France and then gives the hosts a penalty after Argentina are offside at a ruck. Skrela kicks what could be a crucial penalty.
"I hope the Pumas can last the distance as the French will come back at them."sir_alans_wallet on 606
35 mins: France are desperately trying to force the play as they attempt to wrestle their way out of the mess they find themselves in. A Heymans clearance is charged down although France survive.
34 mins: PENALTY France 6-17 Argentina Argentina attack and France are penalised for playing the ball on the floor. From near halfway, Contepomi fires over.
31 mins: PENALTY France 6-14 Argentina For the first time in what seems like ages, France string some phases together. The Pumas infringe and Skrela reduces the deficit.
27 mins: TRY France 3-14 Argentina Well, well, well. Something special could be happening here. Traille breaks out of defence and gives the ball to Remy Martin who delivers an interception pass straight into the hands of Argentine wing Lucas Borges. Woeful. Argentina counter and the lightening-quick Corleto joins the line and wins the foot race to score a try which the Pumas totally deserve. Contepomi's conversion comes back off the post.
"What on earth are France doing? They need to get themselves together quickly because at the moment they have no direction. They look rattled and ragged. Argentina are not playing an extravagant game but it is France that are making the mistakes."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
24 mins: PENALTY France 3-9 Argentina This is all very odd from France. The hosts win a scrum near their own line against the head but almost immediately they lose the ball again. Argentina get to within three metres of the line and win a penalty which Contepomi slots over from the touchline. Traille is back on.
21 mins: The hosts are struggling just to get out of their own half. Full-back Ignacio Corleto produces a wonderful up-and-under that he catches and again France are under pressure. The first whistles are heard from the Paris crowd.
20 mins: Argentina remain on the front foot and Contepomi tries yet another drop goal but it drifts wide.
16 mins: France centre Damien Traille comes off with a very nasty cut on his head. I can't tell you where it is though because there is so much blood. He is replaced by fly-half Frederic Michalak. Contepomi puts the ball deep into the France half with a cross-field kick that bounces into touch.
14 mins: Pichot does really well to nick the ball off Imanol Harinordoquy but can't find Hernandez. More importantly, I've just split cold gravy all down my trousers. Rubbish. They were clean on.
13 mins: France show what they are capable of with a lovely passing move that takes them from deep inside their own half to near the Pumas line. That was good stuff. Argentina do well though in defence and manage to turn the ball over.
"Argentina have showed real maturity in the way they have started this game. They are everywhere and are starting to dominate the contact area."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
9 mins: PENALTY France 3-6 Argentina Lovely stuff from Felipe Contepomi who finds a gap in the France defence after the Pumas win turnover ball. The hosts infringe as they try and defend and Contepomi adds his second penalty.
7 mins: PENALTY France 3-3 Argentina The Pumas are pinged by Spreadbury at the breakdown and Skrela kicks the simple penalty. That should settle the hosts down.
5 mins: PENALTY France 0-3 Argentina France charge down another Hernandez drop-goal attempt. They try to counter attack but are penalised for holding on and inside centre Felipe Contepomi slots over for the first points of the World Cup.
2 mins: Hernandez tries a drop goal but it misses. The Pumas have opened this game superbly and with some real attacking intent.
1 min: From the kick-off Hernandez clears to touch but the French, maybe showing a few nerves, lose the first line-out and Argentina attack. France full-back Cedric Heymans is put under a lot of pressure from Agustin Pichot but the hosts can clear from deep.
2007: David Skrela of France gets the game, and the World Cup, underway.
2003: The Argentine anthem is perfectly respected before the volume is racked up for the Marseillaise. The hairs on the back of my neck are definitely up now.
1959: A brief speech from International Rugby Board chairman Syd Millar and we are ready for the anthems.
1957: The teams, stony faced, slowly walk out onto the Stade de France pitch past the Webb Ellis trophy and are greeted by a wall of noise. We are really here now people. Great stuff.
"Argentina coach Marcelo Loffreda obviously wants to attack with the selection of Juan Martin Hernandez at fly-half. It is a high-pressure environment and it is a risk but I think it can work."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
1946: Really looking forward to the officiating of my favourite referee, England's Tony Spreadbury. Spreaders is sure to come out with some fine West country chat that we can pick up. Heard him say once, "you can't lie there, it's not a beach". Brilliant.
1942: "The stadium was jumping an hour before kick-off and now it's gone ballistic. After five minutes of blokes banging what look like red metal dustbins, they've just introduced a rugby legend from each country, who all ran individually into the centre circle before taking their place on the side of the pitch.
Former Ireland captain Keith Wood received a huge cheer, but the volume levels rose even higher for first Jonah Lomu, then Gareth Edwards, before the final introduction of Jean-Pierre Rives sent the crowd into a complete frenzy."BBC Sport's Bryn Palmer at the Stade de France
1935: The Stade de France looks absolutely superb under the lights. The opening ceremony is well underway and we have lines of brightly coloured dancers doing what can only be described as a very large version of the Hokey Cokey. Looks fun.
"The French players have grown in stature of late and they know they are in charge of their own destiny. They have it within themselves to produce a result."BBC Radio 5live analyst Matt Dawson
"I must say, even though Argentina are very strong. I think the French will outclass them, especially in the backs. Jauzion to have a stormer."keeperreaper on 606
1929: Feeling better now. Got a large plate in front of me with the BBC Friday night staple, pie, chips and gravy (with a token amount of veg just to please my mum). I'm sure you can do better than that....what exotic fare are you tucking into?
"I was disappointed by Argentina's performance against Wales, I think France will win by 15 points."Anonymous, via text
1912: "Plenty of journalists muttering about the organisation on arrival at the Stade de France media centre. Only two people handing out match tickets with long lines of people waiting, the media guides have run out already and there are no match programmes yet, with an hour until kick-off. 'Not a patch on Australia' is the general refrain, followed by "they've had four years to organise this". Not a great start.After a beautiful sunny day in the French capital, the skies over St Denis have clouded over as kick-off approaches, with a dark and slightly sinister air to them. Maybe a sign of the blood and thunder to come on the pitch?"BBC Sport's Bryn Palmer at the Stade de France
"It should be France playing at home but Argentina could just cause an upset if France don't close them down sharp. Who will win? France just."misterarmchairpundit on 606
"Not sure what the best result for Ireland is here. An Argentina win would make the group open, but a bit like a game of Russian roulette."Ade O'Connor via text
1905: "The crowds on the trains into the Stade de France complex were like Oxford Circus on a Friday night. Uncomfortable to say the least. I was eternally grateful to a French gentleman dressed in a Tricolores shirt and navy beret who knew the vagaries of the RER service. He practically dragged me off the train at the Gare du Nord, having spotted our particular service was not, in fact, heading to the Stade. He reckoned tonight's match would be 'dur' (hard) for the French, but 'as long as it's a good match, that's the main thing'. Don't expect Bernard Laporte thinks the same way."BBC Sport's Bryn Palmer at the Stade de France
1900: Evening all. So here we are then, after all the build-up, the sixth World Cup is finally upon us. And what a cracker we have for the Stade de France opener - hosts France against dark horses Argentina.
Les Bleus have looked mightily impressive in their warm-up games, despatching England (twice) and Wales, and a comfortable win in Paris would be the perfect start for Bernard Laporte's men as they negotiate the tournament's toughest group.
Expectations are high for the 2006 and 2007 Six Nations champions and defeat is, well, unthinkable.
Argentina though, are not going to be pushovers. They have risen up the world rankings and are now lie in sixth place, one ahead of England.
The Pumas, coached by the Leicester-bound Marcelo Loffreda, defeated the English at Twickenham last year and will be eyeing this game as the chance to pull off a major shock.
The teams last met in November last year, with France holding on for a 27-26 victory.
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This paper proposes and implements a new TDMA-based MAC protocol for providing timely and reliable delivery of data and command for monitoring and control networks. In this kind of network, sensor nodes are required to sense data from the monitoring environment periodically and then send the data to a sink. The sink determines whether the environment is safe or not by analyzing the acquired data. Sometimes, a command or control message is sent from the sink to a particular node or a group of nodes to execute the services or request further interested data. The proposed MAC protocol enables bidirectional communication, controls active and sleep modes of a sensor node to conserve energy, and addresses the problem of load unbalancing between the nodes near a sink and the other nodes. It can improve reliability of communication significantly while extending network lifetime. These claims are supported by the experimental results.
Context-aware safety monitoring and control applications that collect data from the target environment using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), analyze the collected data, and judge the situation of the environment are in a growing need in industrial fields. One of the key technologies to enable such applications is a WSN that can ensure reliable data transmission. However, the industrial environment is often non-friendly to wireless communication and the topology of the WSN deployed in that environment tends to change dynamically. Thus, it is quite challenging to apply the Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) technology. Furthermore, if sensor devices are installed on the high walls of working places, the replacement of a battery is cumbersome. Thus, a protocol needs to address the balancing of power consumption as well as the power management of individual sensor devices to lengthen network lifetime.
Most of earlier contributions on the design of the MAC protocol focused on low-duty cycle applications to reduce energy consumption. S-MAC [
Recently, several TDMA-based MAC protocols were proposed since contending for the medium is one of the main sources of delays. TRAMA [
Some approaches combine the advantages of TDMA-based and CSMA-based protocols. Z-MAC [
Most of the TDMA-based MAC protocols discussed so far have focused on devising a slot scheduling algorithm and increasing slot reuse or channel efficiency. However, slot reuse often incurs irregular interference. According to the theory and measurement about radio propagation [ We identify the problems of the existing MAC protocols, and in particular we analyze the effect of slot reuse in small control networks. For reliable communication, we propose a scheme to build a tree topology that has bi-directionally reliable links. Moreover, we use MAC control messages for ensuring reliable data transmission within every slot. We propose a protocol that enables bidirectional communication, ensures timely and reliable delivery of data and command in dynamic WSNs. We present a spare time utilization scheme in which a node can use the slots that have been assigned to its neighboring nodes under the grant of the owner. We show by experiments on TelosB sensor testbed that the proposed protocol enables the high reliability of data transmission and significantly reduces energy consumption at the nodes close to a sink, thus enables the balancing of power consumption and extends network lifetime.
We identify the problems of the existing MAC protocols, and in particular we analyze the effect of slot reuse in small control networks.
For reliable communication, we propose a scheme to build a tree topology that has bi-directionally reliable links. Moreover, we use MAC control messages for ensuring reliable data transmission within every slot.
We propose a protocol that enables bidirectional communication, ensures timely and reliable delivery of data and command in dynamic WSNs.
We present a spare time utilization scheme in which a node can use the slots that have been assigned to its neighboring nodes under the grant of the owner.
We show by experiments on TelosB sensor testbed that the proposed protocol enables the high reliability of data transmission and significantly reduces energy consumption at the nodes close to a sink, thus enables the balancing of power consumption and extends network lifetime.
The remaining part of this paper is organized as follows: Section 2 gives the background of this research. In Section 3, we present the formal description of the proposed protocol with the solutions for some derived problems. Section 4 explains the test-bed and evaluates the protocol with experimental results. Finally, we provide concluding remarks in Section 5.
A series of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) tanks are built inside an LPG tank that has to be kept at the extremely low temperature, less than −47 °C. In this building process, people perform work to shield the outer wall of a tank with some thermal insulation materials such as styrofoam, urethane, or glass wool,
A node can be mobile. Sometimes, a link can be broken because of node failure, battery depletion, or the intervention of some communication obstacle. Two nodes which can communicate normally within their mutual transmission ranges are said to have a
For more convenience, we use some notations and definitions as follows.
Each node
Each node
We first examine the MAC features and analyze their effects to set out the design of a new MAC protocol suitable for SMOCS.
Firstly, the use of the TDMA method eliminates channel contention and funneling effect, thus enabling the timely delivery of packets and increasing transmission reliability. However, it tends to degrade throughput in low traffic networks and needs global time synchronization. In addition, some applications need a bi-directionally reliable communication; however, producing a slot schedule for bidirectional communication is not easy or increases the complexity of any scheduling algorithm.
Secondly, several MACs employ a slot reuse scheme to increase channel utilization and thus to reduce the size of superframe. However, a slot scheduling scheme to reuse slots produces some slots which are not used by any node, thus wasting slots [
Thirdly, the transmission of data within the assigned slot may fail in wireless networks due to link failure caused by node mobility, the distortion of time synchronization, or the environmental factors such as time-varying channel condition, communication obstacles, node failure, and battery depletion. Thus a reliability mechanism using the control messages such as RTS, CTS, and ACK is needed to check whether data was transmitted successfully or not; however it would increase power consumption by the increase of overhead. According to the studies [
Lastly, since nodes closer to a sink have to process more data, an ordinary MAC protocol can cause a significant imbalance of power consumption and thus shorten network lifetime. Data filtering and aggregation can be one useful method to alleviate the problem; however, it has to be accompanied by a slot assignment technique that is delicately designed to make filtering and aggregation effective.
Each of the features has a tradeoff; however, considering our objective to design a MAC protocol that ensures reliable transmission and timely delivery in dynamic WSNs to be deployed in the harsh environment, we use TDMA, the reliability mechanism, and a filtering and aggregation technique with elimination of slot reuse. The removal of slot reuse tends to make a MAC protocol robust against node mobility since every slot in a generated schedule is unique over the network; however, it does not help the orphan nodes that have lost their parents to salvage data packets. Thus, for salvaging packets, a MAC protocol either regenerates a slot schedule with modifying topology, or fixes the changed slot demands of nodes after fixing the broken part of topology locally, or can use a spare time utilization scheme that the orphan nodes can utilize the slots which are not used by its neighbors. Note that nodes can produce a lot of spare time either if they are disconnected from some of their children or if a good filtering and aggregation technique is employed.
In our previous study, we proposed the DSA algorithm [
We compare the total number of slots (
In FSA, each node requires one unique frame of three slots. Therefore, the superframe size of FSA,
On the other hand, according to DSA algorithm, each node
By using the probability mass function of
The protocol structure consists of the Initial Construction Period (ICP) and the repeating cycle that includes the Reliable Control Transmission Period (RCTP), the Reliable Data Transmission Period (RDTP), and the Maintenance Period (MP). The former two belong to the Contention-Free Period (CFP), and the latter one belongs to the Contention Access Period (CAP) as illustrated in
In the ICP, initial time synchronization, tree construction, and slot scheduling are performed. The slot scheduling allocates sufficient slots to each node for sending control messages and data packets in every cycle. In the following RCTP and RDTP, the control messages are delivered to either all nodes, a group of nodes or a particular node and data packets are delivered from sensor nodes to a sink, respectively according to the slot scheduling scheme. In the MP, the maintenance activities such as time synchronization, tree maintenance, and slot scheduling are performed.
Time synchronization is performed at the beginning of the ICP and MP per the multiple of
We use a synchronization message,
In tree topology, the successful packet transmission is normally affected by the reliability and goodness of the link between two communication nodes. Therefore, in this work, we take link quality into consideration in the process of tree construction. The purpose is to build the reliable tree in which all tree links are bi-directionally reliable to enable the high successful peer-to-peer packet transmission. However, radio links are known to be unreliable, as their behavior unpredictably varies over time and space. The quality of the radio links greatly impact the efficiency of network performance. Therefore, many link quality estimators have been proposed recently and can be classified as either
We performed several experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of RSSI, LQI and PRR in link quality estimation using TelosB motes running TinyOS 2.1 in an indoor office. One pair of nodes (sender and receiver) is used for data collection. In each experiment, the sender transmits a burst of 1,000 consecutive packets to the receiver with the transmitting power level of −25 dBm. We observe the variation of PRR, RSSI and LQI values for each received packet and calculate their mean values for each experiment. Then we repeated the experiment by changing the distance between the sender and the receiver, increasing 0.1 m each time. As shown in
We can see that it is hard to classify between bad, average and good links. It is shown that when LQI is less than 100, a link with PRR = 0.30 can be confused with a link with PRR = 0.90, since they might have the same value of LQI. Consequently, each individual metric (RSSI, LQI or PRR) cannot classify the entire spectrum of link qualities accurately.
To overcome the disadvantage of using individual metrics, the use of three metrics together would increase the accuracy of link quality estimation. The paper [
Most existing research on WSNs assumes that a wireless communication link is a bi-directional and reliable link. It is assumed that a pair of nodes can exchange data each other and the quality of link between them does not change during the operating time. However, in a real scenario, a link may not be bi-directional or its quality may vary due to different transmission powers and antenna gains of nodes, and the effects of path loss, shadowing, fading or external interference. Therefore, for reliable communication, a bi-directionally reliable link needs to be identified.
We define link (
In the tree construction process, some messages are used as follows:
The tree construction process is initiated by TCR issued by the sink. Upon receiving TCR, an orphan joins the sink by issuing J-REQ if the link between them is B-reliable link. Other orphans that have overheard the J-REQ can join the owner of J-REQ by sending J-REQ to that node. If an orphan has overheard multiple J-REQ messages, it selects a node that has a B-reliable link and the shortest distance to the sink. If there is no B-reliable link, it joins any node in an arbitrary manner. This process repeats until there is no orphan node in the network.
To prevent the collision of J-REQ messages during tree construction, each node sets a timer,
If a node changes its parent, its old and new ancestors have to change their slot demands since they have the number of their descendants changed (
Note that the change of topology in wireless sensor networks occurs quite slowly. Considering this aspect, we allow tree reconstruction to be executed either at the integer multiple of cycles,
A slot scheduling algorithm consists of a Slot Demand Calculation (SDC) algorithm and a Slot Demand Assignment (SDA) algorithm. In the SDC phase, every node calculates its slot demands for control slots and data slots that it needs from its parent. In the SDA phase, nodes are allocated the unique control and data slots in which they transmit command or control message and data.
The calculation of control slot demand and data slot demand is performed from leaf nodes up to a sink node recursively according to
Following the completion of the SDC algorithm, the assignment of control and data slots is performed from the sink down to leaf nodes recursively. A node uses a Slot Demand Assignment message (
Given that a node has its children list (
A node
A node has to know when it wakes up and goes to sleep during control slot and data slot activity. When a protocol enters
Then, it wakes up at the time,
For data slots, given that node
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A control message is not always disseminated to all nodes. If every node rebroadcasts a control message that is destined for one or some nodes, this will cause the unnecessary waste of energy. To control rebroadcasting, each node
A node (sender) can start sending data packets (DATA) to its parent (receiver) at the
Considering the drift of the synchronized time such that a receiver wakes up later than a sender, we use the following data transmission procedure: a sender sends RTS to its parent to check if the receiver (its parent) is ready, and then waits either until it receives RTR or for the specified time,
These MAC control messages may cause quite high overhead if the size of data packet is relatively small. However, we can reduce the number of transmissions and increase the size of packets significantly by achieving the high degree of filtering and aggregation due to the slot demand assignment pattern. This will remove a lot of MAC control messages as well as the headers and trailers of data packets. The most important aspect is that the nodes closer to the gateway can better benefit from the filtering and aggregation. Balancing power consumption in this way will increase network lifetime.
Suppose that the data slot demand
If node
A node Spare time acquisition and announcement ( ( Spare time contention An orphan that has packet(s) to send remains active until either it is allocated slots by the
Spare time acquisition and announcement
Spare time contention
An orphan that has packet(s) to send remains active until either it is allocated slots by the
To evaluate the performance of the I-MAC protocol, we conducted experiments with an indoor testbed of TelosB motes running TinyOS 2.1. The TelosB mote uses the Chipcon CC2420 radio [
Since the power consumption of the radio when in receiving/transmitting mode is much greater than that when in sleep mode, the time when a node operates in receiving/transmitting or listening mode should be kept as less as possible. In CC2420, the transmission power can be programmed at 8 discrete levels between −25 dBm and 0 dBm by setting the
If two neighbor nodes generate two different data packets with the similar oxygen levels whose difference falls within the threshold, a node that receives two data packets can filter one out. Every node generates data packet that includes an integer
The following two scenarios were used to evaluate performance of the protocols:
Scenario I: Static deployment scenario Twenty five sensor nodes are randomly distributed in an indoor office with the dimension of 20 m × 30 m. The sink is placed at the top center of the experimental area and all nodes are immobile. However, during the experiment time, the network topology can be changed due to the effects of time-varying channel conditions, such as path loss, shadowing, fading or external interference. Scenario II: Dynamic deployment scenario Twenty five sensor nodes are artificially distributed in a 5 × 5 grid of the experimental area, making equal distance of about 4 m between the neighbor nodes in vertical or horizontal directions as shown in For the distribution of nodes shown in
Scenario I: Static deployment scenario
Twenty five sensor nodes are randomly distributed in an indoor office with the dimension of 20 m × 30 m. The sink is placed at the top center of the experimental area and all nodes are immobile. However, during the experiment time, the network topology can be changed due to the effects of time-varying channel conditions, such as path loss, shadowing, fading or external interference.
Scenario II: Dynamic deployment scenario
Twenty five sensor nodes are artificially distributed in a 5 × 5 grid of the experimental area, making equal distance of about 4 m between the neighbor nodes in vertical or horizontal directions as shown in
For the distribution of nodes shown in
Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), given as the ratio of the number of data packets received at the sink to the number of data packets transmitted by all nodes in the network, is one of the most important performance metrics in evaluating a reliable MAC protocol.
This improvement comes from two aspects. Firstly, for the reliable and effective delivery of a slot scheduling message, we employ the slotted broadcasting method from our previous paper [
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Transmitting all packets that contain similar information is waste of time and resource. For instance, if the difference of temperatures in any two packets is less than a specified minimum value,
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We have implemented and evaluated a new I-MAC protocol which makes use of the demand-based slot assignment (DSA) algorithm that does not reuse a slot. I-MAC targets a small-sized monitoring and control sensor network of less than 50 nodes that changes in its topology. Since it does not reuse slots, it is free from interference in packet transmission. I-MAC employs a reliable data transmission mechanism within a slot to cope with link failure by node mobility, the distortion of time synchronization, or the environmental factors such as time-varying channel condition, communication obstacle, node failure, and battery depletion. It also uses a spare slot utilization scheme to salvage packets in case of link failure, instead of invoking a costly slot rescheduling. This scheme worked well with the DSA algorithm that enables good filtering and aggregation and thus produces good spare slots. It also includes a method to transmit a command or control messages to some node(s) or all nodes. The experimental results showed that I-MAC could outperform TreeMAC in terms of data delivery ratio, packet loss rate, and energy consumption and balancing in both static and dynamic topologies.
This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Education (2013R1A1A2013396).
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Network model.
A cause-and-effect analysis graph for MAC features and their effects.
Probability mass function of depth (
Superframe size according to variation of network size and node density.
Protocol Structure.
Relationship between RSSI and PRR.
Relationship between LQI and PRR.
Relationship between linkq and PRR.
Example of link state table (LST).
Calculation of control and data slot demands by the SDC algorithm.
An assignment example of control and data slots by the SDA algorithm.
Reliable data transmission scheme.
Slot demand structure and relationship between a node and its children.
The dynamic deployment scenario.
Packet delivery ratio.
Packet loss rate.
Filtering and Aggregation Capability Index.
Energy Consumption.
The packet delivery ratio in dynamic topology.
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|3 slots
|Cycle size (TreeMAC)
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The courtyard will serve as a city venue for Veterans Day events and a place for people to honor and spend time with their loved ones who have served or are serving in the military. Veterans and active service members also will have a place to reflect.
The public was invited to help raised funds for the project with the sale of honorary bricks that will be part of the tribute monument. Brick installations are anticipated to start on Saturday and Sunday, Palmer said.
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A highlight element of the Freedom Courtyard is a 6-foot bronze sculpture by artist Timothy Schmalz, which depicts a scene of a wife or mother longingly looking out a window for their loved one. On the other side of the window, a soldier rests clad in a helmet and battle gear. The scene is framed through the wings of an eagle.
Gold Star and Blue Star members will be honored on two 3-foot-high walls that flank the flags.
"On (Sunday) we'll have more of a poignant moment where the Gold Star families, members that have lost a family member, that have sponsored bricks, will personally lay bricks in the mortar."
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Coordinators have $4,000 yet to raise for the project. People interested can call Palmer at 909-477-2760, ext. 2207.
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The Southern Railway, combined with a trip to our southern terminus at the south coast seaside resort of Swanage, with easy access to the award-winning sandy beach, is perfect for enthusiasts and families alike. As well as the scenic journey from Swanage to Norden, the railway boasts a bumper set of activities to keep everyone entertained For those who have always wanted the chance to get behind a train's controls, there is an opportunity to take charge of a steam train by taking one of the railway's driver experience courses.
Not only is there the chance to see perfectly preserved steam trains in action, there are also children's activities to keep them entertained.
This also includes a special loco-spotter guide, providing a check list of all the locomotives in action.
For further information, visit the railway's website – swanagerailway.co.uk


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Family Law
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Hello there.
Thank you for your questions. I'm so sorry to learn of this situation. Physical abuse is always a criminal matter. Financial abuse is sometimes a criminal matter, depending on the circumstances. Verbal abuse occasionally rises to the level of a criminal offense as well, depending on the circumstances. All criminal matters should be reported to the law enforcement agency local to where the crimes occurred. If you aren't sure if something constituted a crime, report it anyway and let law enforcement make that determination.
Regardless of whether a crime has taken place, there may be a civil cause of action as well. In fact, when a crime has been perpetrated against someone, it's normal that they have a basis for a civil lawsuit.
In other words, it is possible that the same matter is pursued both criminally and civilly.
It is possible for more than one state to have jurisdiction to hear a civil matter, but that jurisdiction is usually limited to where the crime actually occurred.
Where the victim's family resides is normally legally irrelevant for purposes of establishing jurisdiction. Typically, a civil suit may be filed where the crime was committed, although it may (depending on the specifics) occasionally be brought where the perpetrator resides and/or where the victim resides. Naturally, if the crime was committed in the same state where the victim and perpetrator reside, that would ordinarily be the only place to file.
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Determined to drive a trade route through Anauroch, the Zhentarim have sent an army to enslave the fierce nomads of the great desert. As tribe after tribe fall to the intruders, only a single woman, Rhua, sees the true danger - but what sheik will heed the advice of an outcast witch?
Ruha finds help from an unexpected source. The Harpers, guardians of liberty throughout the Realms, have sent an agent to counter the Zhentarim. If she can help this stranger win the trust of the sheikhs, perhaps he can overcome the tribes' ancestral rivalries and drive the invaders from the desert.
©1991 TSR, Inc., c. 2011 Wizards of the Coast, Inc. (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
"Narrator was awful"
Story was great but the narrator was awful. If I hadn't returned the previous 3 books due to a bad narrator, I would have returned it also. I think Victor Bevine has spoilt me.
"Where's my epic fantasy?"
I was really hoping for some epic fantasy and some back-story on the Harpers. What I got was a war story about how a girl saves her people from an invading force. The reader was terrible and had unnatural pauses, poor voice differentiation between characters and a flat, unemotional sound. I don't know how anyone could have rated this piece 5 stars.
The story would have been better with more back-story on the Harpers and some epic fantasy adventure. By epic fantasy adventure I mean having a hero/heroine travel to strange new places, encounter new races or monsters, crawl through a few dungeons or ruins and save the world.
Hire a new reader.
"The first of seventeen in the series"
I purchased the audio book to listen to at work and being a Dungeons & Dragons player and DM I wanted to fall into the realms, to listen and learn, of the Harper organisation and the nation of Calishman. Which is did to a point. The book was written in 1991 under TSR publications, a fantasy novel shouldn't age. The story is average, and there are the protagonists vs the enemies wishing to bring destruction of dominion over powerful, wise but disorganised tribes of the Anauroch desert. There is love, loss and small skirmishes to large battles. There is of course more to this story also, mainly the use of magic, but only just about.
This is the first novel in the Harpers Series, so for one it is a good book to read, but there is not a great amount of depth to the Harper involved. That being said, there are seventeen books in total for the series, including Ed Greenwood, so this could be a huge answer to my problem.
If I would have picked my narrator for the novel, The Parched Sea, about the deserts of Faerun, with tribes, and cut throats. I would have picked someone different. Unfortunately the narrator, you can listen to the sample to get an idea, good in his own right does not suit the themes of the story and this does at points of climatic situations, descriptions and voices get irritating having to hear a young American narrator, instead of the aged middle eastern woman we really wish to be listening to telling us the story.
In short, the book reminds me a lot of Wilbur Smiths 'Warlock' novel. Although a fantasy, TSR twist.
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|Document Type:
|Master's Thesis
|Joel Barreto
|Email address:
|Experimental Design for Estimating Electro-Thermophysical Properties of a Thermopile Thermal Radiation Detector
|Master of Science
|Mechanical Engineering
|Committee Chair:
|Dr. J. Robert Mahan
|Chair's email:
|Committee Members:
|Dr. Thomas E. Diller
|Dr. Brian Vick
|Experimental design, Thermal radiation detector, Composite medium, Genetic algorithm
|Date of defense:
|July 16, 1998
|Release the entire work immediately worldwide.
As the Earth's atmosphere evolves due to human activity, today's modern industrial society relies significantly on the scientific community to foresee possible atmospheric complications such as the celebrated greenhouse effect. Scientists, in turn, rely on accurate measurements of the Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) in order to quantify changes in the atmosphere. The Thermal Radiation Group (TRG), a laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, has been at the edge of technology designing and modeling ERB instruments. TRG is currently developing a new generation of thermoelectric detectors for ERB applications. These detectors consist of an array of thermocouple junction pairs that are based on a new thermopile technology using materials whose electro-thermophysical properties are not completely characterized. The objective of this investigation is to design experiments aimed at determining the electro-thermophysical properties of the detector materials. These properties are the thermal conductivity and diffusivity of the materials and the Seebeck coefficient of the thermocouple junctions. Knowledge of these properties will provide fundamental information needed for the development of optimally designed detectors that rigorously meet required design specifications.
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It can't be easy rising in the middle of the night. Most of us only ever do it for the entirely selfish reason of an early flight to summer sun.
But there are people who do it day in, day out, all year round.
Maulana Saeed Ahmed's day in Preston begins with the first of five prayers he will lead in a mosque as one of the imams to the city's estimated 11,000 Muslims.
And so for Maulana Saeed (Maulana is comparable to 'the reverend') the summer months have seen him wake at between 4am and 5am and head round the corner to the Jamea Masjid (loosely meaning central mosque) where he will hold a brief prayer, before returning home.
"The prayers show that someone is in constant contact with God throughout every day of their life," he says.
"Islam says that our loyalties lie with God: for all that he has given us in life, worship him five times a day. It's the least that we can do in return."
The life of an imam is rooted in a community; his principal task is to literally lead the prayers but also to deliver the Friday sermon, the Islamic equivalent of the Sunday service in a Christian church.
Maulana Saeed shares his responsibilities with a colleague. Among their other duties are education and pastoral care. He teaches in two schools while his colleague, Maulana Ilyas, focuses on the pastoral and outreach elements of their job.
Their final responsibility is leading ceremonies for the dead, starting with the ritual washing of the body in the mosque and ending with prayers by the grave.
British education
For Maulana Saeed, Preston has been his community ever since his father brought him to the town from India as a little boy in the early 1970s. His father was the then imam to the growing community and had presided at the original mosque - a converted vicarage.
But what makes Maulana Saeed different is his education: along with a growing number of imams, his initial education was here in the UK, rather than abroad.
While there has been much historic criticism of imams serving mosques without a hint of English being spoken - something credited with alienating youths who grow up British - there is a new breed of imams who it is hoped are more attuned to modern British life.
The Home Office has imposed language tests on immigrant ministers of religion (something that has particularly taxed Britain's Hindus who are concerned at the declining number of available priests in their temples), but British Muslims are seeking to expand how they train their own imams.
In the case of Maulana Saeed, he went to a local state school before taking his Islamic studies at one of the first Islamic seminaries in the UK. He then gained a place at Medina University in Saudi Arabia, one of the principal seats of Islamic higher education in the Arabic world.
"It was a beautiful experience," he says. "It would be like a Roman Catholic priest going to work in the Vatican. Some of the best years of your life."
But given that many people see Islam and modern Britain as two separate worlds, how does all of this work in practice?
Office parties
An imam's duties include providing ethical guidance to his community. One issue that has come up for Maulana Saeed in the past has been what to do about Christmas office parties.
"A lot of what happens is about perceptions - we have to ensure that we do not give a bad impression of our religion. The best thing to do of course would be not to go to a pub. But what happens if you have something special coming up, the departure of a work colleague, a special party and so on?"
Maulana Saeed said a Muslim would need to consider for themselves whether attending the party is something they should do because, as someone who wants to play a positive role in society, they would like to wish their departing colleague well in their career, or celebrate the success of their work and so on. This, he says, illustrates the subtleties of Islamic thought that non-Muslims tend to miss.
'Do the right thing'
"Living in society means you have to make sure that you do the right thing," he says.
"The guidelines set what is permissible and what is not. It's just a case of applying them to modern society."
So what does he think when people suggest that religiously observant Muslims don't fit in well, that they cannot live comfortably in modern Britain.
"People talk about this but I'm not personally aware of this supposedly internal dilemma that Muslims are supposed to face.
"There are enormous numbers who go to mosque and colleges at the same time; they don't have a problem integrating while sticking to their religious principles.
"A lot of Muslims from around here are into football. I know people who go to mosques and also went to Istanbul to support Liverpool in the Champions League final, Muslims and non-Muslims travelling together.
"At the end of the day, it's about respect for each other. But where people demand that someone should compromise their beliefs - that's where clashes arise, in whatever circumstances."


text: There are housing options that are located very close to school, and others that aren't but that are accessible to reliable public transportation. Look also at www.housing.umaryland.edu for information about on-campus housing and advice about off-campus housing. Another useful resource is www.livebaltimore.com. Alex Perkins, email@example.com in the Admissions Office, is also an excellent source of advice on housing options so feel free to contact him with your questions.


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Cortana updated to bring you stock prices and charts
0. phoneArena posted on 16 Jul 2014, 17:31
With Microsoft's stock price at a 14 year high, what better time to update Windows Phone 8.1's personal assistant, to allow it to give users stock prices and other pertinent information. The gang in Redmond has promised to update Cortana twice a month, and has already added the predictive engine that used algorithms to correctly forecast the winning team in 93% of the Knockout round games for the World Cup...
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. AfterShock (Posts: 3698; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
The phone that has put them on a market share map is the 520, no?
Shouldn't Cortana be finding them a Mcd's or lodging before sundown.
Popcorn anyone? 8)
4. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
Apple and Samsung shares are much higher than 42p.
6. AJagtiani (Posts: 466; Member since: 24 Apr 2014)
Dude if you think you're funny or something, then i'm sorry to burst that bubble.... YOU'RE NOT FUNNY OR EVEN SARCASTIC A LITTLE BIT !
7. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
Your back after some long time
2. lyndon420 (Posts: 4952; Member since: 11 Jul 2012)
Cortana is looking to be nothing short of amazingly cool.
3. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
I've heard and seen people saying it's better than Google and Siri.....?
9. elitewolverine (Posts: 5192; Member since: 28 Oct 2013)
It really comes down to using them all three side by side.
As well since Cortana is purely html5 based, and does not rely on the internet for phone functions, you can set alarms etc without the web since it is half/half.
As a result, Cortana can be updated on the fly or when needed, and much easier and faster than other methods.
I love it vs now and siri, i do like Siri's non use story time and talk balk on some non-use stuff though.
5. AfterShock (Posts: 3698; Member since: 02 Nov 2012)
Even I can not deny that, she's a potent VA.
Enough to keep others scrambling.
8. microsoftnokiawin (Posts: 1236; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)
probably the only thing i value in windows phone over other operating system so far and the love tiles are nice still waiting for now !
EDIT: personal opinion before all the windows fan boys jump on me !
10. Arte-8800 (banned) (Posts: 4562; Member since: 13 Mar 2014)
Your lucky, orelse, get ready for attack


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High School In Colorado Wins Big In Technology CompetitionSome students from Delta High School are celebrating their big win at a recent competition.
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Delta Flight To Salt Lake City Diverted To DIAA Delta flight from Maryland to Utah was diverted to Denver International Airport on Friday due a mechanical issue.
Black Bear Hunt Study Clears 1st Hurdle In ColoradoColorado lawmakers have rejected a proposal to expand the black bear hunting season - but they're moving ahead with a measure asking state wildlife authorities to study the matter.
Wind Power For Los Angeles Would Travel Across ColoradoFour companies proposed an $8 billion project Tuesday that within a decade could send wind energy generated on the plains of Wyoming to power-thirsty households in Southern California.
Police Search For Missing 14-Year-Old From DeltaPolice across Colorado are looking for a missing 14-year-old from Delta who hasn't been seen since Monday.
2 Delta Men Arrested On Federal Gun ChargesFederal prosecutors are pursuing gun charges against two men from Delta — a felon later convicted of poaching and another man who allegedly gave him a rifle to hunt.
2 Charged In Montrose County Motorcycle DeathA motorcyclist who was killed in southwestern Colorado last fall had run into a chain and a rope stretched across a highway, and prosecutors have filed charges alleging two men were using the line to retrieve an elk carcass, authorities said Friday.
1 Killed In Western Colorado Plane CrashAuthorities say one person has died in the crash of a single-engine plane in Delta County in western Colorado.
Small Plane Makes Emergency Landing On Western SlopeNo injuries have been reported after a small plane was forced to make an emergency landing on a highway in Delta.