In this paper, cooperative sensor protocol and relay deployment in wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) is proposed to improve the network lifetime. First, cooperative transmission is …

While a lot of existing research attempts to extend the lifetime of a wireless sensor network
(WSN) by designing energy efficient networking protocols, the impact of random device …

Employing cooperative communication in multihop wireless sensor networks provides the
network with significant energy efficiency. However, the lifetime of such a network is directly …

Although current research focused on sensor deployment to balance the energy
consumption among the sensor nodes for prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor …

This paper proposes power-optimized and bit-error-ratio (BER) minimized cooperative
relaying strategies for multi-hop wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Due to the limited power …

In a sensor network, usually a large number of sensors transport data messages to a limited
number of sinks. Due to this multipoint-to-point communications pattern in general …

In this paper, we study the impact of cooperative routing for maximizing the network lifetime
in sensor network applications. We assume nodes in the network are equipped with a single …

Most existing studies on cooperative relay in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) concentrate
on link capacity or symbol error rate (SER) constrained power allocation. We advance the …

In large scale wireless sensor networks, maximizing the network lifetime under energy
constraint is one of the most critical tasks. In this paper we investigate how to maximize the …

This paper addresses the design of distributed transmission protocol for lifetime
maximization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A dynamic protocol for lifetime …