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This article provides a comprehensive overview of sensors commonly used in low-cost, low-power systems, focusing on key concepts such as Internet of Things (IoT), Big Data, and smart sensor technologies. It outlines the evolving roles of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-30 Alexandros Gazis , Ioannis Papadongonas , Athanasios Andriopoulos , Constantinos Zioudas , Theodoros Vavouras

Wireless sensor networks are finally becoming a reality. In this paper, we present a scalable architecture for using wireless sensor networks in combination with wireless Ethernet networks to provide a complete end-to-end solution to narrow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ioan Raicu , Owen Richter , Loren Schwiebert , Sherali Zeadally

The growing popularity of big data and Internet of Things (IoT) applications bring new challenges to the wireless communication community. Wireless transmission systems should more efficiently support the large amount of data traffics from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-04-18 Hong-Chuan Yang , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

The Internet of Things (IoT) incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area wireless networks and technologies into the designs of IoT applications. This enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-04 Mahmoud Elkhodr , Seyed Shahrestani , Hon Cheung

The number of sensors deployed in the world is expected to explode in the near future. At this moment, nearly 30 billion Internet of Things (IoT) devices are connected and this number is expected to double in the next four years. While not…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-30 Prerna Dhull , Andrea P. Guevara , Maral Ansari , Sofie Pollin , Negin Shariati , Dominique Schreurs

Wireless powered backscatter communications is an attractive technology for next-generation low-powered sensor networks such as the Internet of Things. However, backscattering suffers from collisions due to multiple simultaneous…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Constantinos Psomas , Ioannis Krikidis

In an era driven by the Internet of Things (IoT) and rapid wireless communication advances, the synergy between sensing and backscatter communication (BackCom) has emerged as a frontier of research. This paper delves deep into the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-13 Shayan Zargari , Diluka Galappaththige , Chintha Tellambura

The article discusses the emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) as a groundbreaking technology in data processing and communication. It outlines how WSNs, composed of dispersed autonomous sensors, are utilized to monitor physical and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Akinsola Ahmed , Ejiofor Oluomachi , Akinde Abdullah , Njoku Tochukwu

Emerging smart infrastructures, such as Smart City, Smart Grid, Smart Health, and Smart Transportation, need smart wireless connectivity. However, the requirements of these smart infrastructures cannot be met with today's wireless networks.…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-06-23 Mary Ann Weitnauer , Jennifer Rexford , Nicholas Laneman , Matthieu Bloch , Santiago Griljava , Catherine Ross , Gee-Kung Chang

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a significant technology in wireless sensing and Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), offering benefits such as low cost, high penetration, and enhanced privacy. Currently, it is widely utilized in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Zijian Zhao

Recent advances in the development of the low-cost, power-efficient embedded devices, coupled with the rising need for support of new information processing paradigms such as smart spaces and military surveillance systems, have led to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Savneet Kaur , Deepali Virmani , Satbir Jain

Nowadays, the network and the Internet applications have gained a substantial importance in the digital world, due to the great impact which it provides for health and community services. Among the most important services that have been…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yasameen Sajid Razoki , Muntasir Al-Asfoor

The coverage problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be generally defined as a measure of how effectively a network field is monitored by its sensor nodes. This problem has attracted a lot of interest over the years and as a result,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Riham Elhabyan , Wei Shi , Marc St-Hilaire

We consider the problem of sensor localization in a wireless network in a multipath environment, where time and angle of arrival information are available at each sensor. We propose a distributed algorithm based on belief propagation, which…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-09-28 Mei Leng , Wee Peng Tay , Tony Q. S. Quek

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is the collection of many small size low cost, battery operated sensor nodes distributed over the targeted region to collect the information of interest. We can say these networks can be a fruitful solution…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Rahul R Lanjewar , D S Adane

Motivated by the increasing variance of suggested Internet of Things (IoT) applications and the lack of suitability of current wireless technologies in scalable, long range deployments, a number of diverging Low Power Wide Area (LPWA)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Joseph Finnegan , Stephen Brown

The next-generation of wireless networks will enable many machine learning (ML) tools and applications to efficiently analyze various types of data collected by edge devices for inference, autonomy, and decision making purposes. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Mingzhe Chen , Deniz Gündüz , Kaibin Huang , Walid Saad , Mehdi Bennis , Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan , H. Vincent Poor

In this article, we put forward the mobile crowd sensing paradigm based on ubiquitous wearable devices carried by human users. The key challenge for mass user involvement into prospective urban crowd sending applications, such as monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Olga Galinina , Konstantin Mikhaylov , Kaibin Huang , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy

Existing information theoretic work in decentralized detection is largely focused on parallel configuration of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where an individual hard or soft decision is computed at each sensor node and then transmitted…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Yasaman Keshtkarjahromi , Rashid Ansari , Ashfaq Khokhar

Connectivity and coverage are two crucial problems for wireless sensor networks. Several studies have focused on proposing solutions for improving and adjusting the initial deployment of a wireless sensor network to meet these two criteria.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-08-02 Hanen Idoudi , Chiraz Houaidia , Leila Azouz Saidane , Pascale Minet