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Wireless Mesh network (WMN) is dynamically self-organizing and self-configured, with the nodes in the network automatically establishing an ad-hoc network and maintaining the mesh connectivity. The ability to use multiple-radios and…
When designing wireless communication systems (WCS), spectral efficiency (SE) has been the main design performance metric. Recently, energy efficiency (EE) is attracting a huge interest due to the massive deployment of power limited WCS…
Gathering data in an energy efficient manner in wireless sensor networks is an important design challenge. In wireless sensor networks, the readings of sensors always exhibit intra-temporal and inter-spatial correlations. Therefore, in this…
Aided by the ubiquitous wireless connectivity, declining communication costs, and the emergence of cloud platforms, the deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and services is accelerating. Most major mobile network operators view…
Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an emerging technology that shows great promise for various futuristic applications both for mass public and military. The sensing technology combined with processing power and wireless communication makes…
In this paper, we present optimization techniques for WSNs. Our main goal is to minimize the power consumption and latency. We address the problem of minimizing the energy consumption in WSNs including hardware. ZigBee protocol is used to…
Automated collection of environmental data may be accomplished with wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a general discussion of WSNs is given for the gathering of data for educational research. WSNs have the capability to…
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The proliferation of wireless devices requires flexible network infrastructures to meet the increasing Quality of Service (QoS) requirements. Mobile Robotic Platforms (MRPs) acting as mobile communications cells are a promising solution to…
Wireless sensor network (WSN) has attracted researchers worldwide to explore the research opportunities, with application mainly in health monitoring, industry automation, battlefields, home automation and environmental monitoring. A WSN is…
M2M communications are projected to be one of the fastest growing technology segments of the IT sector in the next years. Sensor and actuator networks connect communication machines and devices so that they automatically transmit…
We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Two key issues in MWSNs - energy consumption, which is dominated by sensor movement, and sensing coverage - have attracted plenty of…
The data traffic in wireless networks is steadily growing. The long-term trend follows Cooper's law, where the traffic is doubled every two-and-a-half year, and it will likely continue for decades to come. The data transmission is tightly…
The systems based on intelligent sensors are currently expanding, due to theirs functions and theirs performances of intelligence: transmitting and receiving data in real-time, computation and processing algorithms, metrology remote,…
In this paper we present new optimization formulations for maximizing the network lifetime in wireless mesh networks performing data aggregation and dissemination for machine-to-machine communication in the Internet of Things. We focus on…
Unlike wired networks, the capacity of a wireless network is interference limited due to the broadcast nature of wireless medium. Some multicast wireless network protocols do not consider channel assignment issue, that they cause…
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have evolved into a wireless communication technology of immense interest. But technological advancements in WMNs have inadvertently spawned a plethora of network performance bottlenecks, caused primarily by…
Wireless communications and sensing (WCS) establish the backbone of modern information exchange and environment perception. Typical applications range from mobile networks and the Internet of Things to radar and sensor grids. Despite…
As mobile services are shifting from "connection-centric" communications to "content-centric" communications, content-centric wireless networking emerges as a promising paradigm to evolve the current network architecture. Caching popular…
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are employed across a wide range of industrial applications where ultra-low power consumption is a critical prerequisite. At the same time, these systems must maintain a certain level of determinism to ensure…