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We study a two-tiered wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of $N$ access points (APs) and $M$ base stations (BSs). The sensing data, which is distributed on the sensing field according to a density function $f$, is first transmitted to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Jun Guo , Erdem Koyuncu , Hamid Jafarkhani

Several situations exist where a geographic region of some size needs to be scanned or monitored through many sensors. Still, it is either absolutely impossible or prohibitively expensive to deploy and maintain wireless communication…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Bruno Olivieri , Marcelo Paulon , Markus Endler

In this paper, we propose a novel framework for performance optimization in Internet of Things (IoT)-based next-generation wireless sensor networks. In particular, a computationally-convenient system is presented to combat two major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-27 Muzammil Behzad , Manal Abdullah , Muhammad Talal Hassan , Yao Ge , Mahmood Ashraf Khan

In this paper, we propose a multiobjective optimization framework for the sensor selection problem in uncertain Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The uncertainties of the WSNs result in a set of sensor observations with insufficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Nianxia Cao , Sora Choi , Engin Masazade , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper studies the information theoretic secure aggregation problem in a three-layer hierarchical network with arbitrary heterogeneous data assignment, where clustered users communicate with an aggregation server through an intermediate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Chenyi Sun , Ziting Zhang , Kai Wan , Xiang Zhang

We consider a wireless sensor network consists of cooperative nodes, each of them keep adapting to streaming data to perform a least-mean-squares estimation, and also maintain information exchange among neighboring nodes in order to improve…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-13 Yuan Wang , Wee Peng Tay , Wuhua Hu

Effective large-scale air quality monitoring necessitates distributed sensing due to the pervasive and harmful nature of particulate matter (PM), particularly in urban environments. However, precision comes at a cost: highly accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Kevin Yin , Julia Gersey , Pei Zhang

This paper studies data aggregation in large-scale regularly deployed Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where devices generate synchronized time-triggered traffic (e.g., measurements or updates). The data granularity, in terms of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Yasser Nabil , Hesham ElSawy , Suhail Al-Dharrab , Hassan Mostafa , Hussein Attia

We consider several estimation and learning problems that networked agents face when making decisions given their uncertainty about an unknown variable. Our methods are designed to efficiently deal with heterogeneity in both size and…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-11 M. Amin Rahimian , Ali Jadbabaie

Interconnecting multiple sensor networks is a relatively new research field which has emerged in the Wireless Sensor Network domain. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have typically been seen as logically separate, and few works have…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Sougata Pal , Simon Oechsner , Boris Bellalta , Miquel Oliver

Message bundling is an effective way to reduce the energy consumption for message transmissions in wireless sensor networks. However, bundling more messages could increase both end-to-end delay and message transmission interval; the former…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Xintao Huan , Kyeong Soo Kim

Energy conservation of sensor nodes for increasing the network life is the most crucial design goal while developing efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. Recent technological advances help in the development of wide…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-09-05 Surender Kumar , Manish Prateek , N. J. Ahuja , Bharat Bhushan

Battery aging is one of the major concerns for the pervasive devices such as smartphones, wearables and laptops. Current battery aging mitigation approaches only partially leverage the available options to prolong battery lifetime. In this…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Tamoghna Ojha , Theofanis P. Raptis , Marco Conti , Andrea Passarella

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

Automated collection of environmental data may be accomplished with wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, a general discussion of WSNs is given for the gathering of data for educational research. WSNs have the capability to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2008-05-06 Tom Adam Frederic Anderson , Yean-Fu Wen

Advancements in Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) technology have enabled Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) to gather, process and transport multimedia (MM) data as well and not just limited to handling ordinary scalar data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Taner Cevik , Alex Gunagwera , Nazife Cevik

Many papers have been proposed in order to increase the wireless sensor networks performance; This kind of network has limited resources, where the energy in each sensor came from a small battery that sometime is hard to be replaced or…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-08-11 Mohammed Abuhelaleh , Khaled Elleithy , Thabet Mismar

Smart sensing is expected to become a pervasive technology in smart cities and environments of the near future. These services are improving their capabilities due to integrated devices shrinking in size while maintaining their…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-12-18 Gert Dekkers , Fernando Rosas , Steven Lauwereins , Sreeraj Rajendran , Sofie Pollin , Bart Vanrumste , Toon van Waterschoot , Marian Verhelst , Peter Karsmakers

This work centers on the communication aspects of decentralized learning over wireless networks, using consensus-based decentralized stochastic gradient descent (D-SGD). Considering the actual communication cost or delay caused by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Daniel Pérez Herrera , Zheng Chen , Erik G. Larsson

Distributed sensor networks have gained interest thanks to the developments in processing power and communications. Event-triggering mechanisms can be useful in reducing communication between the nodes of the network, while still ensuring…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-27 Irene Perez-Salesa , Rodrigo Aldana-Lopez , Carlos Sagues