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Routing is one of the critical and ongoing challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks. The main challenge has always been to have a routing protocol that reduces the communication overhead, hence saving the energy of the sensors in the network.…
A recent approach in modeling and analysis of the supply and demand in heterogeneous wireless cellular networks has been the use of two independent Poisson point processes (PPPs) for the locations of base stations (BSs) and user equipments…
In this paper, we consider a multi-agent resilient consensus problem, where some of the nodes may behave maliciously. The approach is to equip all nodes with a scheme to detect neighboring nodes when they behave in an abnormal fashion. To…
Compressive Sensing (CS) method is a burgeoning technique being applied to diverse areas including wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In WSNs, it has been studied in the context of data gathering and aggregation, particularly aimed at…
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), designing a stable, low-power routing protocol is a major challenge because successive changes in links or breakdowns destabilize the network topology. Therefore, choosing the right route in this type of…
The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of resource starved sensor nodes that are deployed to sense, process and communicate vital information to the base station. Due to the stringent constraints on the resources in the sensor…
Designing security systems for wireless sensor networks presents a challenge due to their relatively low computational resources. This has rendered many traditional defense mechanisms based on cryptography infeasible for deployment on such…
In WSN, each sensor is responsible for sensing environmental conditions and sending them to the one or more base stations. Battery-operated sensors are severely constrained by the amount of energy that can be spend for transmitting these…
Clustering techniques create hierarchal network structures, called clusters, on an otherwise flat network. In a dynamic environment-in terms of node mobility as well as in terms of steadily changing device parameters-the clusterhead…
Transmission Expansion Planning (TEP) is the process of optimizing the development and upgrade of the power grid to ensure reliable, efficient, and cost-effective electricity delivery while addressing grid constraints. To support growing…
The rapid growth of the so-called Internet of Things is expected to significantly expand and support the deployment of resource-limited devices. Therefore, intelligent scheduling protocols and technologies such as wireless power transfer,…
Energy in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is critical to network lifetime and data delivery. However, the primary impediment to the durability and dependability of these sensor nodes is their short battery life. Currently, power-saving…
Energy preservation is one of the most important challenges in wireless sensor networks. In most applications, sensor networks consist of hundreds or thousands nodes that are dispersed in a wide field. Hierarchical architectures and data…
In this paper we describe HeSP, a complete simulation framework to study a general task scheduling-partitioning problem on heterogeneous architectures, which treats recursive task partitioning and scheduling decisions on equal footing.…
The self-organizational ability of ad-hoc Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has led them to be the most popular choice in ubiquitous computing. Clustering sensor nodes organizing them hierarchically have proven to be an effective method to…
Driven by ambitious renewable portfolio standards, large-scale inclusion of variable energy resources (such as wind and solar) are expected to introduce unprecedented levels of uncertainty into power system operations. The current practice…
The area of networking games has had a growing impact on wireless networks. This reflects the recognition in the important scaling advantages that the service providers can benefit from by increasing the autonomy of mobiles in decision…
One of the major challenges in design of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to reduce energy consumption of sensor nodes to prolong lifetime of finite-capacity batteries. In this paper, we propose Energy-efficient Adaptive Scheme for…
We investigate the connectivity of a wireless sensor network secured by the heterogeneous key predistribution scheme under an independent on/off channel model. The heterogeneous scheme induces an inhomogeneous random key graph, denoted by…
A Wireless Sensor Network(WSN) can be described as a collection of untethered sensor nodes. An important application of WSNs is in the field of real-time communication. Real-time communication is a critical service which requires a…