1st ACWR 2011: Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India

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  Rajagopala Chidambaram, P. Venkat Rangan, Satish K. Tripathi, Prasant Mohapatra, Maneesha V. Ramesh, Maarten van Steen:
  Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Wireless Technologies for Humanitarian Relief, ACWR '11, Amritapuri, Kollam, Kerala, India, December 18-21, 2011. ACM 2011, ISBN 978-1-4503-1011-6

Wireless cellular networks

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  Nagabhushana Sindhushayana:
  Heterogeneity and multi-cell cooperation in wireless cellular networks. 1

Sensor networks

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  Ian F. Akyildiz:
  Sensor networks in challenged environments. 3

Wireless distributed systems

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  Maarten van Steen:
  Exploring extreme wireless distributed systems. 5

Context aware systems

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  Ashok K. Agrawala:
  Context-aware, event-driven systems. 7

Networked sensor systems

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  Sajal K. Das:
  Cyber-physical and networked sensor systems: challenges and opportunities. 9

Wireless distributed computing

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  Dilip Krishnaswamy:
  Wireless distributed computing. 11

WSN architectures

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  Alba Pagès-Zamora:
  Consensus in correlated random wireless sensor networks. 13
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  C. Rajgopal, Rakesh Peter:
  Application framework for management and monitoring of heterogeneous 6LoWPAN deployment. 15-22
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  Punit Ahluwalia, Anand Ramachandran:
  An integrated framework for warehouse management using wireless sensor networks and decision support systems. 23-27
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  S. Suri:
  Amateur radio in emergency communications advanced digital communication network. 29

Wireless security

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  Sneha Kumar Kasera:
  Wireless network security. 32

Wireless communications 1

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  Upamanyu Madhow:
  Reaching out with wireless. 33
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  Ashish Goel, Prerana Gupta Poddar, Monika Agrawal:
  Two new phase sequence sets for PAPR reduction in SLM-OFDM systems without side information. 35-40
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  K. Rajeswari, K. Bruntha, S. J. Thiruvengadam:
  Robust minimum mean square error channel estimation for LTE downlink OFDM system. 41-48
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  A. Visakh, Navneet Upadhyay:
  Channel estimation for OFDM systems using Kalman filter algorithm. 49-52

Context aware systems

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  George C. Polyzos:
  Context-aware information delivery in assistive environments over a publish-subscribe internet. 53
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  Shivsubramani Krishnamoorthy, Ashok K. Agrawala:
  Contextual information integration platform for humanitarian relief. 55-61
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  Faisal B. Luqman, Feng-Tso Sun, Heng-Tze Cheng, Senaka Buthpitiya, Martin L. Griss:
  Prioritizing data in emergency response based on context, message content and role. 63-69
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  Paul Gardner-Stephen, Swapna Palaniswamy:
  Serval mesh software-WiFi multi model management. 71-77

Energy optimization

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  Masahiro Fujita:
  Accelerating Tsunami simulation with FPGA and GPU through automatic compilation. 79
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  Harish H. Kenchannavar, Umakant P. Kulkarni:
  Optimized overlapping based energy-aware node collaboration in visual sensor networks. 81-87
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  Govind P. Gupta, Manoj Misra, Kumkum Garg:
  An energy balanced mobile agents based data dissemination protocol for wireless sensor networks. 89-95

Wireless communications 2

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  Tommaso Melodia:
  Humanitarian relief applications of underwater acoustic sensor networks. 97
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  Karmeshu, Vineet Khandelwal:
  MGF and high order moment of channel capacity in log-normal fading environment. 99-106

Robotics

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  Santanu Chaudhury:
  Disaster management using mobile robots. 108
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  Federica Pascucci, Roberto Setola:
  An adaptive localization system for first responders. 109-114
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  Manesh V. Mohan, S. Anjana Devi, C. H. Teena, Anu Abraham:
  A method for minimum range extension with improved accuracy in triangulation laser range finder. 115-121
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  Subramanium Ganesan, Manish Shakya, Aqueel F. Aqueel, Lakshmi M. Nambiar:
  Small disaster relief robots with swarm intelligence routing. 123-127

Performance

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  Monique Becker:
  Design issues in self-organizing wireless sensor networks. 129
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  Majid Bayani Abbasy, Elena Gabriela Barrantes, Gabriela Marín:
  Time delay performance analysis of sensor allocation strategies on a WSN. 135-140
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  Ashish Katiyar, Aditya K. Jagannatham:
  Bayesian data and channel joint maximum-likelihood based error correction in wireless sensor networks. 141-146
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  N. Chitradevi, K. Baskaran, V. Palanisamy, D. Aswini:
  Designing an efficient PCA based data model for wireless sensor networks. 147-154

Wireless communications 3

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  Eamonn O. Nuallain:
  Integral equation methods for power control in cognitive radio. 155
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  Siddharth Sharma, Aditya K. Jagannatham:
  Optimal classifier based spectrum sensing in cognitive radio wireless systems. 157-162
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  Ravi Sundaram:
  Content delivery through the ages: Akamai to WebCloud. 163

Vehicular networks

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  Jayaraj Poroor, Bharat Jayaraman:
  Formal specification and verification of vehicular handoff using π-calculus. 165-168
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  Sriram Nandha Premnath, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Behrouz Farhang-Boroujeny, Neal Patwari:
  Efficient dynamic spectrum access in vehicular networks using filterbank multicarrier. 169-176

Data management

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  Veit Köppen, Maik Mory, André Dietrich, Sebastian Zug:
  Business-management-inspired sensor data fusion. 177-185
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  Ajay Kumar:
  Electronic systems and design manufacturing in India: opportunities and challenges - a policy perspective. 187-189

4G

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  Krishna Kant:
  Smart infrastructure and sustainability the challenge of modeling the human element. 189
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  Dongwoon Hahn, Ashok K. Agrawala:
  Robust RF fingerprinting techniques in 4G networks. 191-198
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  Rahul Vaidya, Chitresh Yadav, Jyothish Kunkumath, Prasad Yadati:
  Network congestion control: mechanisms for congestion avoidance and recovery. 199-207
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  Kumar Ritikesh, Aditya K. Jagannatham:
  Utility based video scheduling for quality maximization in 4G WiMAX wireless networks. 209-215

Humanitarian relief

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  Franck Legendre:
  30 years of ad hoc networking research: what about humanitarian and disaster relief solutions? what are we still missing? 217
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  Scott C. Burleigh, Edward J. Birrane:
  Toward a communications satellite network for humanitarian relief. 219-224
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  Britty Baby, M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, K. P. Soman:
  Automated cardiac event change detection for continuous remote patient monitoring devices. 225-232
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  Eiko Yoneki, Jon Crowcroft:
  EpiMap: towards quantifying contact networks and modelling the spread of infections in developing countries. 233-240

Localization

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  Enrico De Marinis, Otello Gasparini:
  Location and tracking of pedestrians based on inertial navigation. 241
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  Stefano Panzieri, Federica Pascucci, Lorenzo Sciavicco:
  A simultaneous routing and localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks in emergency scenario. 243-249
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  Quirin Hamp, Rui Zhang, Ling Chen, Omar Gorgis, Thomas Ostertag, John Pavlina:
  Results from German research project I-LOV. 249-258

Earthquake monitoring

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  Ram M. Narayanan:
  Earthquake survivor detection using life signals from radar micro-Doppler. 259-264
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  Jürgen Sachs, Marko Helbig, Ralf Herrmann, Martin Kmec, Kai Schilling, E. Zaikov, Peter Rauschenbach:
  Trapped victim detection by pseudo-noise radar. 265-272
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  Weidong Yi, Lanbo Liu:
  Monitoring Schumann resonance and other electromagnetic precursors of an earthquake with a virtual MIMO wireless sensor network. 273-276
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  Lanbo Liu, Hao Xie, Zijian Liu, Amvrossios C. Bagtzoglou, Benjamin Barrowes, Antonio M. Vincitore:
  Numerical simulation of UWB impulse radar vital signal detection at an earthquake disaster site. 278-281

Body area networks

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  Kumar N. Sivarajan:
  LTE for rural applications and humanitarian relief. 283
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  Xuan Ma, Xikai Tu, Jian Huang, Jiping He:
  A cyber-physical system based framework for motor rehabilitation after stroke. 285-290
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  Ramiro Sámano-Robles, Atílio Gameiro:
  Design of a low cost RFID platform with added value sensing capabilities for humanitarian relief applications. 291-297
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  Ram Mohan:
  Amateur radio advanced digital communication network in brief. 297

Disaster monitoring

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  P. Somasundaran, P. Purohit:
  Nanotechnology for sensing: emerging applications of aptamers based sensors for societal welfare. 299
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  Nicolas Mayor, Jean-Frédéric Wagen, Abhishek Samanta, Ravi Sundaram:
  PhoneGuard: a smartphone in the coalmine. 301-308
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  Debabrata Sikdar, K. R. Kartic Bhargav, Sukant Dewangan:
  Effectuation of wireless sensor networks for human rescue missions using RF signal detection. 309-313
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  Maria-Angeles Grado-Caffaro, Martin Grado-Caffaro, Mohammad Sadegh Ebrahimi:
  Some comments on wireless sensor networks for natural hazards. 315-322

Radar communication technology

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  Ram Narayanan:
  Human detection and characterization through barriers. 323

Security

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  Sneha Kumar Kasera:
  Securing wireless networks using unique device and link characteristics. 325
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  K. J. Bose, A. Nagaraju:
  Performance evaluation of key exchange using integrity regions in different mobility models. 327-334
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  Rakesh Matam, Somanath Tripathy:
  FRI-attack: fraduelent routing information attack on wireless mesh network. 335-338
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  Uttam Ghosh, Raja Datta:
  Identity based secure AODV and TCP for mobile ad hoc networks. 339-346

Community networks

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  Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Vrutti Vyas:
  A scalable mobile tele-consultation framework for enhancing healthcare access. 347
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  Arun K. Saigal, Amrita Saigal:
  Saathimobile and the rapid deployment of prototypes to build applications for social enterprise in the developing world. 351-356
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  Anshuman B. Saxena, Alain Wegmann:
  A developing world perspective on the design of wireless enabled humanitarian relief services. 357-364
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  Clifford C. Dacso, Edward W. Knightly, Matthew Dacso:
  Technology-enabled chronic disease management in under-resourced environments. 365-369

Wireless telemedicine 1

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  B. Prabhakaran, Arvind Balasubramanian:
  Sensing health: fault detection, isolation, and minimization of on-body sensors. 371
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  Rakesh Kumar Mishra, Sankhayan Choudhury, Nabendu Chaki:
  Optimizing mobile terminal equipment for video-medic services. 373-378
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  Chinmoy Mukherjee, Komal Gupta, Rajarathnam Nallusamy, Sumit Kalra:
  A system to provide primary healthcare services to rural India more efficiently and transparently. 379-384
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  Bidyut Biman Sarkar, Sugata Sanyal, Nabendu Chaki:
  Distributed framework for tele health monitoring system. 385-390

Mobile adhoc networks

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  Prasant Mohapatra:
  Security and quality provisioning in wireless networks. 391
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  R. Pandi Selvam, V. Palanisamy:
  A cluster based multi-source multicast routing protocol using genetic algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks. 393-399
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  Syed Talat Iqbal, T. V. Vaidyanath, R. Gunasekaran:
  Guaranteeing secure transmission in time critical networks through dual sense multiple control channel protocol. 401-408

Emergency response

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  Vijaya Kumar Murthy, N. Volkovs, M. Sethumadhvan:
  Authentication in wireless sensor networks and applications. 409-410
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  Manav Seth, Sneha Kumar Kasera, Robert P. Ricci:
  Emergency service in Wi-Fi networks without access point association. 411-419
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  Narayanan M. Komerath:
  An imaging, communications and beamed power architecture for first responders. 421-428
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  B. S. Manoj, Bheemarjuna Reddy Tamma, Ramesh R. Rao:
  On the impact of physical-cyber world interactions during unexpected events. 429-436

Posters

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  R. Jaichandran, A. Anthony Irudhayaraj:
  Specification verification and validation of wireless sensor network model for environment monitoring. 437-440
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  K. Vinoth Babu, G. Ramachandra Reddy, J. Arun Prakash:
  Effective frequency offset correction in OFDM systems with extended Kalman filtering technique. 441-443
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  Jacob Abharam, P. Vipeesh:
  A proposed system: specific absorption rate distributions for multiple towers. 445-448
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  S. Prashanth, S. P. Geetha, Shanmugha Sundaram G. A.:
  Demand responsive public transportation using wireless technologies. 449-453
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  P. K. Srinivasan:
  An emergency GSM satellite portable terminal for disaster management. 455-460
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  D. Arivudainambi, D. Rekha:
  Broadcast scheduling problem for TDMA ad-hoc networks. 461-464
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  Shiju Sathyadevan, Hari Kallingalthodi, N. N. Hari:
  IRIGNET: intelligent communication network for power-scarce rural India. 465-471
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  S. Sathish, K. Thangavel, Vaidehi V.:
  Cache based ant colony routing algorithm for mobile ad hoc networks. 473-476
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  V. Manoj, N. Raghavendiran, M. Mohammed Aaqib, R. Vijayan:
  An approach for detection of malicious node using fuzzy based trust levels in MANET. 477-480
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  B. Manimegalai, A. Bhuvaneshwari, S. Supraja:
  Design and simulation of reconfigurable antenna for cognitive radio. 481-483
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  J. Rangarajan, K. Baskaran:
  Unicast forwarded cluster based multicast protocol for ad hoc networks. 485-488
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  S. Muthuramalingam, M. VasanthaKumar, C. M. Balaji:
  A new weight based self-organizing approach to clustering in mobile ad hoc networks. 489-492
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  R. J. Susan, Sakuntala S. Pillai:
  PAPR reduction using tent map for multiple data rate OFDMA system. 493-496
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  Aarathi Muppalla, B. S. Manoj:
  The impact of communication and terrain characteristics on the accuracy of robot formation. 497-502
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  Rakesh Kumar Jha, Upena D. Dalal:
  Location based WiMAX network optimization: power consumption with traffic load. 503-508
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  M. G. Sumithra, M. Sarumathi:
  A novel adaptive modulation scheme for WIMAX OFDM system to improve QoS. 509-513
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  Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Vineeth Radhakrishnan, Deepak Krishnan, Denny Chacko Jacob, Akhil Kakkanattu Sudhakaran:
  Wireless intelligent gadget for disaster relief. 515-518
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  M. Sabarimalai Manikandan, K. P. Soman, Samarendra Dandapat:
  Quality-driven wavelet based PCG signal coding for wireless cardiac patient monitoring. 519-526
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  S. P. Yamunadevi, T. Vairam, G. Vidya:
  An approach for efficient multipath routing in wireless sensor networks. 523-525
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  N. Radhika, K. R. Chithra, Anoop Jacob, S. Anjitha:
  QoS based performance analysis of VoWLAN for emergency calls using QualNet. 527-530

Demos

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  Ramana Rao, Haribabu, David Selvakumar:
  Wireless sensor node variants and their application domains. 531-533
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  Rajesh Kannan Megalingam, Sai Manoj Prakhya, Ramesh Nammily Nair, Mithun Mohan:
  Intelligent home navigation system for the elderly and physically challenged. 535-536
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  Arjun Vasudevan, Asha S. Benny, Br. Anand Shenoy, Niranjan S. Nair, K. M. Shabana, Minerva Dutta:
  KARSHIK: agricultural information monitoring and reference based on wireless networks. 537-539
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  Aryadevi Remanidevi Devidas, Maneesha Vinodini Ramesh:
  Smart distribution electrical grid for India. 541-542