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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…

This paper examines the problem of assigning a transmission power to every node of a wireless sensor network. The goal is to minimize the total power consumption while ensuring that the resulting communication graph is connected. We focus…

Wireless sensor networks have attracted much attention because of many applications in the fields of industry, military, medicine, agriculture, and education. In addition, the vast majority of researches has been done to expand its…

The performance of a wireless sensor network (WSN) depends fundamentally on how its various parameters are configured under different link quality conditions. Surprisingly, even though WSNs have been extensively researched, there still…

The deployment of network nodes is essential to ensure the wireless sensor network's regular operation and affects the multiple network performance metrics, such as connectivity, coverage, lifetime, and cost. This paper focuses on the…

This paper studies the performance and key structural properties of the optimum location-based relay selection policy for wireless networks consisting of homogeneous Poisson distributed relays. The distribution of the channel quality…

We present a flexible stochastic model for a class of cooperative wireless relay networks, in which the relay processing functionality is not known at the destination. In addressing this problem we develop efficient algorithms to perform…

We consider the problem of data collection from a continental-scale network of energy harvesting sensors, applied to tracking mobile assets in rural environments. Our application constraints favour a highly asymmetric solution, with heavily…

The energy cost of a sensor network is dominated by the data acquisition and communication cost of individual sensors. At each sampling instant it is unnecessary to sample and communicate the data at all sensors since the data is highly…

This letter considers a compute-and-forward two-way relaying channel with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. Specifically, two single-antenna users exchange information via a multi-antenna relay station based on nested…

In this paper, we present a novel problem of optimal placement of sensor nodes in wirelessly rechargeable Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) wrt. a charging requirement constraint and a task utility requirement constraint. We call this problem…

Wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of a group of dedicated sensors nodes which are distributed over a certain area for observing and recording the physical conditions (like temperature, sound, pressure) of the environment and organizing…

A wireless sensor network can be used to collect and process environmental data, which is often of multivariate nature. This work proposes a multivariate sampling algorithm based on component analysis techniques in wireless sensor networks.…

A sensor is a small electronic device which has the ability to sense, compute and communicate either with other sensors or directly with a base station (sink). In a wireless sensor network (WSN), the sensors monitor a region and transmit…

We consider energy-efficient time synchronization in a wireless sensor network where a head node (i.e., a gateway between wired and wireless networks and a center of data fusion) is equipped with a powerful processor and supplied power from…

Energy is one of the most important and scarce resources in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). WSN nodes work with the embedded operating system called TinyOS, which addresses the constrains of the WSN nodes such as limited processing power,…

Routing in Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) aims to interconnect sensor nodes via single or multi-hop paths. The routes are established to forward data packets from sensor nodes to the sink. Establishing a single path to report each data…

The problems of sensor configuration and activation for the detection of correlated random fields using large sensor arrays are considered. Using results that characterize the large-array performance of sensor networks in this application,…

The present work considers the localization problem in wireless sensor networks formed by fixed nodes. Each node seeks to estimate its own position based on noisy measurements of the relative distance to other nodes. In a centralized batch…

For Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, it is essential to reliably sense and deliver the environmental data on time to avoid system malfunction. While energy harvesting is a promising technique to extend the lifetime of sensor nodes, it…