Publications de François Ingelrest

The Beauty of the Commons: Optimal Load Sharing by Base Station Hopping in Wireless Sensor Networks

Martin Vetterli, Patrick Thiran, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest, Runwei Zhang

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the base station (BS) is a critical sensor node whose failure causes severe data losses. Deploying multiple fixed BSs improves the robustness, yet requires all BSs to be installed with large batteries and large energy-ha ...

2015

Hydrologic response of an alpine watershed: Application of a meteorological wireless sensor network to understand streamflow generation

Martin Vetterli, Marc Parlange, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, Daniel Nadeau, Marc Diebold, François Ingelrest, Simone Padoan, Silvia Simoni

A field measurement campaign was conducted from June to October 2009 in a 20 km2 catchment of the Swiss Alps with a wireless network of 12 weather stations and river discharge monitoring. The objective was to investigate the spatial variability of meteorol ...

American Geophysical Union2011

SensorScope: Application-Specific Sensor Network for Environmental Monitoring

Martin Vetterli, Marc Parlange, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest, Olivier Couach

SensorScope is a turnkey solution for environmental monitoring systems, based on a wireless sensor network and resulting from a collaboration between environmental and network researchers. Given the interest in climate change, environmental monitoring is a ...

2010

Potentials of Opportunistic Routing in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks

Martin Vetterli, François Ingelrest

The low quality of wireless links leads to perpetual packet losses. While an acknowledgment mechanism is generally used to cope with these losses, multiple retransmissions nevertheless occur. Opportunistic routing limits these retransmissions by taking adv ...

Springer Berlin / Heidelberg2009

SensorScope: Out-of-the-Box Environmental Monitoring

Martin Vetterli, Marc Parlange, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest, Olivier Couach

Environmental monitoring constitutes an important field of application for wireless sensor networks. Given the severity of potential climate changes, environmental impact on cities, and pollution, it is a domain where sensor networks can have great impact ...

IEEE2008

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Successful Wireless Sensor Network Deployments

Martin Vetterli, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest

The successful deployment of a wireless sensor network is a difficult task, littered with traps and pitfalls. Even a functional network does not guarantee gathering meaningful data. In SensorScope, with its high-mountain campaigns, we have acquired invalua ...

2008

SensorScope, un système clef en main de surveillance de l'environnement

Martin Vetterli, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest

Given the importance of climate changes and their potentially dramatic consequences for human beings, designing precise and reliable evolution models is of prime importance. Unfortunately, current data collection techniques are rather limited as they make ...

2008

Localized Minimum Spanning Tree Based Multicast Routing with Energy-Efficient Guaranteed Delivery in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

François Ingelrest

We present a minimum spanning tree based energy aware multicast protocol (MSTEAM), which is a localized geographic multicast routing scheme designed for ad hoc and sensor networks. It uses locally-built minimum spanning trees (MST) as an efficient approxim ...

2008

Wireless Sensor Networks for Environmental Monitoring: The SensorScope Experience

Martin Vetterli, Guillermo Barrenetxea Kobas, François Ingelrest

While wireless sensor networks have been extensively studied in the past few years, most results are of theoretical nature and were obtained outside of a practical context. This can be problematic for real applications, especially in the area of environmen ...

2008

Maximizing the Delivery of MPR Broadcasting under Realistic Physical Layer Assumptions

François Ingelrest

It is now commonly accepted that the unit disk graph used to model the physical layer in wireless networks does not reflect real radio transmissions, and that a more realistic model should be considered for experimental simulations. Previous work on realis ...

Springer US2008