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Wirelessly-powered sensor networks (WPSNs) are becoming increasingly important in different monitoring applications. We consider a WPSN where a multiple-antenna base station, which is dedicated for energy transmission, sends pilot signals…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Rong Du , Hossein Shokri Ghadikolaei , Carlo Fischione

Coverage is one of the fundamental issues in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). It reflects the ability of WMSNs to detect the fields. Motivated by the existing-enhancing algorithm of traditional 2D WMSNs, a new 3D WMSNs sensing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-09-17 Shasha Xu , Weijie Lyu , Huilin Li

In this paper, we consider an intrusion detection application for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We study the problem of scheduling the sleep times of the individual sensors to maximize the network lifetime while keeping the tracking…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-03-25 Prashanth L. A. , Abhranil Chatterjee , Shalabh Bhatnagar

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

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a collection of nodes which can communicate with each other without any prior infrastructure along with the ability to collect data autonomously and effectively after being deployed in an ad-hoc fashion to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-04-16 Subhabrata Mukherjee , Anand Seetharam , Abhishek Bhattacharyya , Mrinal. K. Naskar , Amitava Mukherjee

Sensor placement optimization methods have been studied extensively. They can be applied to a wide range of applications, including surveillance of known environments, optimal locations for 5G towers, and placement of missile defense…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Lukas Taus , Yen-Hsi Richard Tsai

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…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Junhao Wei , Yanzhao Gu , Ran Zhang , Yanxiao Li , Wenxuan Zhu , Jinhong Song , Yapeng Wang , Xu Yang , Ngai Cheong

One of the main pervasive problems Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) encounter is to maintain flawless communication sharing and cooperative processing between sensors via radio links to ensure a reliable treatment of information. Many…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-06-08 Salim el Khediri , Nejah Nasri , Mounir Samet , Anne Wei , Abdennaceur Kachouri

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), coverage and deployment are two most crucial issues when conducting detection tasks. However, the detection information collected from sensors is oftentimes not fully utilized and efficiently integrated.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ruijie Liu , Tianxiang Zhan , Zhen Li , Yong Deng

Traditional Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) typically rely on pre-analysis of the target area, network size, and sensor coverage to determine initial deployment. This often results in significant overlap to ensure continued network…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Parham Soltani , Mehrshad Eskandarpour , Sina Heidari , Farnaz Alizadeh , Hossein Soleimani

There are many challenges when designing and deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs). One of the key challenges is how to make full use of the limited energy to prolong the lifetime of the network, because energy is a valuable resource in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-07-04 Neeraj Kumar , Manoj Kumar , R. B. Patel

The wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a power constrained system, since nodes run on limited power batteries which shorten its lifespan.The main challenge facing us in the design and conception of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to find…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-06-20 Mostafa Saadi , Moulay Lahcen Hasnaoui , Abderrahim Beni Hssane , Said Benkirane , Mohamed Laghdir

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

Vertex covering has important applications for wireless sensor networks such as monitoring link failures, facility location, clustering, and data aggregation. In this study, we designed three algorithms for constructing vertex cover in…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Vedat Kavalci , Aybars Ural , Orhan Dagdeviren

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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Pouya Mollaebrahim Ghari , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi

In this article we consider the problems of distributed detection and estimation in wireless sensor networks. In the first part, we provide a general framework aimed to show how an efficient design of a sensor network requires a joint…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2013-07-08 Sergio Barbarossa , Stefania Sardellitti , Paolo Di Lorenzo

Wireless sensor networks are normally characterized by resource challenged nodes. Since communication costs the most in terms of energy in these networks, minimizing this overhead is important. We consider minimum length node scheduling in…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-01-24 K. Shashi Prabh

In this paper, we design an optimal sensor collaboration strategy among neighboring nodes while tracking a time-varying parameter using wireless sensor networks in the presence of imperfect communication channels. The sensor network is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-04 Shan Zhang , Sijia Liu , Vinod Sharma , Pramod K. Varshney

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently gained a lot of attention by scientific community. Small and inexpensive devices with low energy consumption and limited computing resources are increasingly being adopted in different…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Asma Mesmoudi , Mohammed Feham , Nabila Labraoui

In this paper we provide a fully distributed implementation of the k-means clustering algorithm, intended for wireless sensor networks where each agent is endowed with a possibly high-dimensional observation (e.g., position, humidity,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Gabriele Oliva , Roberto Setola , Christoforos N. Hadjicostis