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Sensor networks aim at monitoring their surroundings for event detection and object tracking. But, due to failure, or death of sensors, false signal can be transmitted. In this paper, we consider the problems of distributed fault detection…

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…

One of the most important issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is severe energy restrictions. As the performance of Sensor Networks is strongly dependence to the network lifetime, researchers seek a way to use node energy supply…

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) enable a wealth of new applications where remote estimation is essential. Individual sensors simultaneously sense a dynamic process and transmit measured information over a shared channel to a central fusion…

In this paper, a new multi-hop weighted clustering procedure is proposed for homogeneous Mobile Ad hoc networks. The algorithm generates double star embedded non-overlapping cluster structures, where each cluster is managed by a leader node…

In recent years, many researchers have focused on wireless sensor networks and their applications. To obtain scalability potential in these networks most of the nodes are categorized as distinct groups named cluster and the node which is…

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) suffers from the hot spot problem where the sensor nodes closest to the base station are need to relay more packet than the nodes farther away from the base station. Thus, lifetime of sensory network depends…

With the ever-growing communication demands and the unceasing miniaturization of mobile devices, the Internet of Things is expanding the amount of mobile terminals to an enormous level. To deal with such numbers of communication data,…

The paper presents two mechanisms for designing an on-demand, reliable and efficient collection protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. The former is the Bidirectional Link Quality Estimation, which allows nodes to easily and quickly compute…

The issue of optimizing the limited and often non-renewable energy of sensor nodes due to its direct impact on network lifetime dominates every aspect of wireless sensor networks. Existing techniques for optimizing energy consumption are…

Cluster based routing technique is most popular routing technique in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Due to varying need of WSN applications efficient energy utilization in routing protocols is still a potential area of research. In this…

An energy efficient routing protocol is the major attentiveness for researcher in field of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this paper, we present some energy efficient hierarchal routing protocols, prosper from conventional Low Energy…

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) with their dynamic applications gained a tremendous attention of researchers. Constant monitoring of critical situations attracted researchers to utilize WSNs at vast platforms. The main focus in WSNs is to…

Heterogeneous wireless networks (HetNets) provide a means to increase network capacity by introducing small cells and adopting a layered architecture. HetNets allocate resources flexibly through time sharing and cell range…

As large-scale dense and often randomly deployed wireless sensor networks (WSNs) become widespread, local information exchange between co-located sets of nodes may play a significant role in handling the excessive traffic volume. Moreover,…

We address the two fundamental problems of spatial field reconstruction and sensor selection in het- erogeneous sensor networks. We consider the case where two types of sensors are deployed: the first consists of expensive, high quality…

We study a hierarchical heterogeneous Rayleigh fading wireless sensor network (WSN) in which sensor nodes surveil a region of interest (RoI) and use access points (APs) as relays to transmit their sensed information to base stations (BSs).…

Tensor clustering, which seeks to extract underlying cluster structures from noisy tensor observations, has gained increasing attention. One extensively studied model for tensor clustering is the tensor block model, which postulates the…

This paper introduces the deployment of a group of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Network (WSAN) for Internet of Thing (IoT) systems in rural regions deployed by a drone dropping sensors and actuators at a certain position as a mesh of a…

Energy management is one of the critical parameters in Wireless Sensor Networks. In this paper we attempt for a solution to balance the energy usage for maximizing the network lifetime, increase the packet delivery ratio and throughput. Our…