Browsing by Author "Vassiliou, Vasos"

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  • An Analysis of the Handover Latency Components in Mobile IPv6 

    Vassiliou, Vasos; Zinonos, Zinon (IEEE, 2009)
    This article analyses the latency components in Mobile IPv6 handovers. It provides real-implementation results for significant parts of the handover process through measurements in a real MIPv6 implementation on a wireless ...

  • Controlling the Handoff Procedure in an Oil Refinery Environment Using Fuzzy Logic 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Vassiliou, Vasos (IEEE, 2012)
    Mobility is one of the most important challenges in a wireless sensor system. Usually, continuous connectivity of a Mobile Node (MN) is achieved by supporting handoff from one connection point to another. In order to ...

  • Dynamic Topology Control for WSNs in Critical Environments 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Vassiliou, Vasos; Ioannou, Christiana; Koutroullos, Marios (IEEE, 2011)
    Plant automation and control are mission-critical applications and require timely and reliable data delivery, which is difficult to provide using a wireless technology. This is especially more difficult in industrial ...

  • An Experimental Analysis of the Mobile IPv6 Handover Latency Components 

    Vassiliou, Vasos; Zinonos, Zinon (2009)
    This paper examines the handover process of Mobile IPv6 in a real wireless testbed, based on IEEE 802.11b and extracts information on the actions taken by network entities during the movement of a mobile node. This work ...

  • Fuzzy Logic Control for Mobility Support in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Vassiliou, Vasos (Springer, 2014)
    Mobility management is a crucial problem for wireless mobile communication, especially in wireless sensor networks (WSN). In this chapter, we show the need of providing an intelligent mobility controller, applicable to any ...

  • The GINSENG System for Wireless Monitoring and Control: Design and Deployment Experiences 

    O'donovan, Tony; Brown, James; Büsching, Felix; Cardoso, Alberto; Cecílio, José; Do Ó, Jose; Furtado, Pedro; Gil, Paulo; Jugel, Anja; Pöttner, Wolf-Bastian; Roedig, Utz; Sá Silva, Jorge; Silva, Ricardo; Sreenan, Cormac J.; Vassiliou, Vasos; Voigt, Thiemo; Wolf, Lars; Zinonos, Zinon (ACM, 2013)
    Today’s industrial facilities, such as oil refineries, chemical plants, and factories, rely on wired sensor systems to monitor and control the production processes. The deployment and maintenance of such cabled systems is ...

  • Handoff Triggering for Wireless Sensor Networks with Performance Needs 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Vassiliou, Vasos; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos (IEEE, 2013)
    In this paper, we deal with mobility management for wireless sensor networks and we focus on the first phase of a handoff procedure which is concerned with the mechanics of measuring important parameters and initiating ...

  • Inter-Mobility Support in Controlled 6LoWPAN Networks 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Vassiliou, Vasos (IEEE, 2011)
    The research and industrial community started to think of more complex application scenarios for wireless sensor networks, where the use of mobile sensor nodes is essential. The support of mobile sensor nodes in such ...

  • Mobility in WSNs for Critical Applications 

    Silva, Ricardo; Zinonos, Zinon; Sá Silva, Jorge; Vassiliou, Vasos (IEEE, 2011)
    Recent critical application sectors of sensor networks like military, health care, and industry require the use of mobile sensor nodes, something that poses unique challenges in aspects like handoff delay, packet loss, and ...

  • Mobility Management in WSNs using Fuzzy Logic: An Industrial Application Scenario 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Vassiliou, Vasos (IEEE, 2012)
    Mobility management in Wireless Sensor Networks is considered to be of an up most importance for today's critical applications. In this paper, we present a soft mobility management solution where the mobility procedures ...

  • Radio Propagation in Industrial Wireless Sensor Network Environments: From Testbed to Simulation Evaluation 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Vassiliou, Vasos; Christofides, Tasos C. (ACM, 2012)
    In recent years, sensor networks characteristics have led to incremental utilization in different types of applications. Several techniques have been proposed to evaluate the performance of WSNs; the two most popular being ...

  • S-GinMob: Soft-Handoff Solution for Mobile Users in Industrial Environments 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Vassiliou, Vasos (IEEE, 2011)
    In current research studies and testbed deployments of sensor networks, individual sensor nodes are usually assumed to be static. However, recent applications require mobile sensor nodes, something that poses unique ...

  • Wireless sensor networks mobility management using fuzzy logic 

    Zinonos, Zinon; Chrysostomou, Chrysostomos; Vassiliou, Vasos (Elsevier, 2014)
    This paper presents a novel, intelligent controller to support mobility in wireless sensor networks. In particular, the focus is on the deployment of such mobility solution to critical applications, like personnel safety ...

  • WSN Evaluation in Industrial Environments First results and lessons learned 

    Poettner, W.; Wolf, L.; Cecílio, José; Furtado, Pedro; Mendão Silva, Ricardo; Sá Silva, Jorge; Cardoso, Alberto; Brown, J.; Sreenan, C.; Klein, A.; Roedig, U.; Vassiliou, Vasos; Voigt, T.; Donovan, T. O.; He, Z.; Zinonos, Zinon; Carrilho de Sousa Gil, Paulo José (IEEE, 2011)
    The GINSENG project develops performance-controlled wireless sensor networks that can be used for time-critical applications in hostile environments such as industrial plant automation and control. GINSENG aims at integrating ...