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We study a heterogeneous wireless sensor network (WSN) where N heterogeneous access points (APs) gather data from densely deployed sensors and transmit their sensed information to M heterogeneous fusion centers (FCs) via multi-hop wireless…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Saeed Karimi-Bidhendi , Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are extensively utilized in critical applications, including remote monitoring, target tracking, healthcare systems, industrial automation, and smart control in both residential and industrial settings. One…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Almamoon Alauthman

In this study, we investigate the resource management challenges in next-generation mobile crowdsensing networks with the goal of minimizing task completion latency while ensuring coverage performance, i.e., an essential metric to ensure…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Yaru Fu , Yue Zhang , Zheng Shi , Yongna Guo , Yalin Liu

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensed data by sensors need to be gathered, so that one very important application is periodical data collection. There is much effort which aimed at the data collection scheduling algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-30 Ngoc-Tu Nguyen , Bing-Hong Liu , Shao-I Chu , Hao-Zhe Weng

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Banu Kabakulak

In this work, we investigate the capacity allocation problem in the energy harvesting wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with interference channel. For the fixed topologies of data and energy, we formulate the optimization problem when the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-31 Dongbin Jiao , Liangjun Ke , Shengbo Liu , Felix T. S. Chan

The lifetime and the sustainability of the wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be increased with energy harvesting transmitters utilizing optimum packet scheduling. On the other hand, WSNs are observed to collect spatially or temporally…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Burhan Gulbahar

We study a mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN) consisting of multiple mobile sensors or robots. Three key factors in MWSNs, sensing quality, energy consumption, and connectivity, have attracted plenty of attention, but the interaction of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Jun Guo , Hamid Jafarkhani

We propose a two-layer mobile sink and static sensor network (MSSSN) architecture for large scale wireless sensor networks. The top layer is a mobile ad hoc network of resource-rich sink nodes while the bottom layer is a network of static…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Natarajan Meghanathan , Gordon Skelton

Wireless Sensor networks are dense networks of small, low-cost sensors, which collect and disseminate environmental data and thus facilitate monitoring and controlling of physical environment from remote locations with better accuracy. The…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Deepali Virmani , Tanuj Singhal , Ghanshyam , Khyati Ahlawat , Noble

We study real time periodic query scheduling for data collection in multihop Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Given a set of heterogenous data collection queries in WSNs, each query requires the data from the source sensor nodes to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-08-05 Xiaohua Xu , Xiang-Yang Li , Min Song

We address the problem of efficient data gathering in a wireless network through multi-hop communication. We focus on the objective of minimizing the maximum flow time of a data packet. We prove that no polynomial time algorithm for this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Vincenzo Bonifaci , Peter Korteweg , Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela , Leen Stougie

We propose a simple yet efficient scheme for a set of energy-harvesting sensors to establish secure communication with a common destination (a master node). An eavesdropper attempts to decode the data sent from the sensors to their common…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-26 Ahmed El Shafie , Naofal Al-Dhahir

We consider a wireless network where multiple energy harvesting transmitters communicate with the common receiver in a time sharing manner. In each slot, a transmitter can either harvest energy or send its data to the receiver. Given a time…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Kalpant Pathak , Sanket S. Kalamkar , Adrish Banerjee

Recent works on WSNs show that use of mobile sink can prolong network lifetime. This paper demonstrates the advantages of the mobile sink in WSNs for increasing their lifetime than static sink. A novel sink mobility with coverage algorithm…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Hasina Rahman , Zeenat Rehena , Nandini Mukherjee

Design of control applications over wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a challenging issue due to the bandwidth-limited communication medium, energy constraints and real-time data delivery requirements. This paper introduces a new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Bartlomiej Placzek , Marcin Bernas

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…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-07-02 Fatma Almajadub , Khaled Elleithy

Weighted-sum energy efficiency (WSEE) is a key performance metric in heterogeneous networks, where the nodes may have different energy efficiency (EE) requirements. Nevertheless, WSEE maximization is a challenging problem due to its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Christos N. Efrem , Athanasios D. Panagopoulos

Designing decentralized policies for wireless communication networks is a crucial problem, which has only been partially solved in the literature so far. In this paper, we propose the Decentralized Markov Decision Process (Dec-MDP)…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Alessandro Biason , Subhrakanti Dey , Michele Zorzi

Mobile data collection using controllable sinks is an effective approach to improve energy efficiency and data freshness in densely deployed wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, existing path-planning methods are often heuristic-driven…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Uma Mahesh Boda , Mallikharjuna Rao Nuka