Barrier coverage is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks for security applications (eg,
border protection) where directional sensors (eg, cameras) are becoming more popular than …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained a substantial attention in wireless research
community as these networks are envisioned to support a large number of practical …

Industrial communication systems (ICSs) have become an important part of many automated
applications. Smart sensors for ICSs have attracted much attention. Using smart sensors for …

Industries can benefit a lot from integrating sensors in industrial plants, structures,
machinery, shop floors, and other critical places and utilizing their sensing and monitoring …

Distributed wireless sensor networks have problems on detecting and preventing malicious
nodes, which always bring destructive threats and compromise multiple sensor nodes …

With the advent of 5G, technologies such as Software-Defined Networks (SDNs) and
Network Function Virtualization (NFV) have been developed to facilitate simple …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) has advanced its pervasiveness across the globe for the
development of smart networks. It is aimed to deploy network edge that enables smart …

Providing desirable data security, that is, confidentiality, authenticity, and availability, in
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is challenging, as a WSN usually consists of a large …

Due to their working environments, limited resources and communication characteristics,
wireless sensor networks face some challenges including energy optimization and security …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a major part of the telecommunications sector. WSN is
applied in many aspects, including surveillance battlefields, patient medical monitoring …