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In this paper, we study the localization problem in dense urban settings. In such environments, Global Navigation Satellite Systems fail to provide good accuracy due to low likelihood of line-of-sight (LOS) links between the receiver (Rx)…
Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of sensor nodes that report temperature, relative humidity, and other environmental parameters. The time between two successive measurements is a critical parameter to set during the…
Routing algorithms for wireless sensor networks can be broadly divided into two classes - proactive and reactive. Proactive routing is suitable for a network with a fixed topology. On the other hand, reactive routing is more suitable for a…
The localization problem in a wireless sensor network is to determine the coordination of sensor nodes using the known positions of some nodes (called anchors) and corresponding noisy distance measurements. There is a variety of different…
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have the goal of gathering data from the environment. The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) drastically changed WSN's vision that, as never before, needs to expand and include hundreds or thousands of…
The discovery of neighbouring nodes in multihop wireless networks has become a key challenge. Due to tribulations in communication, synchronization loss between nodes, disparity in transmission power etc, the connectivity of nodes will…
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are rapidly emerging as an important new area in wireless and mobile computing research. Applications of WSNs are numerous and growing, and range from indoor deployment scenarios in the home and office to…
In randomly deployed networks, such as sensor networks, an important problem for each node is to discover its \textit{neighbor} nodes so that the connectivity amongst nodes can be established. In this paper, we consider this problem by…
In this paper, we combat the problem of performance optimization in wireless sensor networks. Specifically, a novel framework is proposed to handle two major research issues. Firstly, we optimize the utilization of resources available to…
Nowadays, real-time vehicle applications increasingly rely on video acquisition and processing to detect or even identify vehicles and obstacles in the driving environment. In this letter, we propose an algorithm that allows reinforcing…
We present a generic and flexible module that encodes region proposals by both their intrinsic features and the extrinsic correlations to the others. The proposed non-local region of interest (NL-RoI) can be seamlessly adapted into…
Localization of a wireless mobile device or a robot in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a difficult problem, particularly in dynamic scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based alternative sensing and localization modalities…
Autonomous drone swarms deployed for surveillance, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure inspection must maintain reliable coverage of critical assets despite robot failures. This requires multicoverage: each asset must be observed…
This paper aims to propose a significant way of remote access and real time monitoring of a particular geographic area by integrating wireless sensor clouds with existing Telecom infrastructure and applications built around them through a…
Coverage and connectivity both are important in wireless sensor network (WSN). Coverage means how well an area of interest is being monitored by the deployed network. It depends on sensing model that has been used to design the network…
In future wireless communication networks, existing active localization will gradually evolve into more sophisticated (passive) sensing functionalities. One main enabler for this process is the merging of information collected from the…
Given a set of objects with durations (jobs) that cover a base region, can we schedule the jobs to maximize the duration the original region remains covered? We call this problem the sensor cover problem. This problem arises in the context…
Most of the wireless sensor networks consist of static sensors, which can be deployed in a wide environment for monitoring applications. While transmitting the data from source to static sink, the amount of energy consumption of the sensor…
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are essential for monitoring and communication in complex environments, where coverage optimization directly affects performance and energy efficiency. However, traditional algorithms such as the Whale…
Indoor localization has become an important issue for wireless sensor networks. This paper presents a zoning-based localization technique that uses WiFi signals and works efficiently in indoor environments. The targeted area is composed of…