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Recently, many researchers have studied efficiently gathering data in wireless sensor networks to minimize the total energy consumption when a fixed number of data are allowed to be aggregated into one packet. However, minimizing the total…
In-network data aggregation is an essential technique in mission critical wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for achieving effective transmission and hence better power conservation. Common security protocols for aggregated WSNs are either…
This paper is about the wireless sensor network in environmental monitoring applications. A Wireless Sensor Network consists of many sensor nodes and a base station. The number and type of sensor nodes and the design protocols for any…
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…
Usage of mobile sink(s) for data gathering in wireless sensor networks(WSNs) improves the performance of WSNs in many respects such as power consumption, lifetime, etc. In some applications, the mobile sink $MS$ travels along a predefined…
In recent years, the wireless sensor network (WSN) is playing a key role in sensing, collecting and disseminating information in various applications. An important feature associated with WSN is to develop an efficient data distribution and…
In this paper, we combat the problem of performance optimization in wireless sensor networks. Specifically, a novel framework is proposed to handle two major research issues. Firstly, we optimize the utilization of resources available to…
This paper presents a two-phase cooperative communication strategy and an optimal power allocation strategy to transmit sensor observations to a fusion center in a large-scale sensor network. Outage probability is used to evaluate the…
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…
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming increasingly utilized in applications that require remote collection of data on environmental conditions. In particular dense WSNs are emerging as an important sensing platforms for the Internet…
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…
Data aggregation is a fundamental technique in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) in which sensory data collected by intermediate nodes is merged by in-network computation using maximum, average, or sum functions. Because sensors run on…
The two biggest problems with wireless sensor networks are security and energy usage. In sensing devices, malicious nodes could be found in large numbers. The researchers have proposed several methods to find these rogue nodes. To prevent…
Given $n$ wireless transceivers located in a plane, a fundamental problem in wireless communications is to construct a strongly connected digraph on them such that the constituent links can be scheduled in fewest possible time slots,…
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed autonomous sensors to monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as temperature, sound, pressure,etc. In sensing applications, data packets are flowing from sensor…
The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are composed of resource starved sensor nodes that are deployed to sense, process and communicate vital information to the base station. Due to the stringent constraints on the resources in the sensor…
The wireless sensor network is a collection of energy-constrained nodes. Their objective is to sense, collect and process information for some ad-hoc purpose. Typically the nodes are deployed in geographically inaccessible regions. Thus the…
A distributed data collection algorithm to accurately store and forward information obtained by wireless sensor networks is proposed. The proposed algorithm does not depend on the sensor network topology, routing tables, or geographic…
The capacity of a wireless network is the maximum possible amount of simultaneous communication, taking interference into account. Formally, we treat the following problem. Given is a set of links, each a sender-receiver pair located in a…
Recently, Optical wireless communication (OWC) have been considered as a key element in the next generation of wireless communications due to its potential in supporting unprecedented communication speeds. In this paper, infrared lasers…