The growing use of mobile nodes in manufacturing environments is increasing the Quality of
Service (QoS) requirements of the communications infrastructures that support them, as is …

Nowadays the role of mobile nodes, either human workers or robots, in industrial production
is becoming increasingly important. Consequently, in Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks …

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSN) are expected to support in the near future a wide
range of applications in which mobile nodes, for example, robots or humans, interoperate …

Scheduling algorithms play an important role for TDMA-based wireless sensor networks.
Existing TDMA scheduling algorithms address a multitude of objectives. However, their …

Multicast routing protocols improve the network performance by optimising the parameters
such as bandwidth, channel utilisation and throughput rate. In wireless sensor network, the …

Some industrial applications require deterministic and bounded gathering delays. We focus
on the joint time slots and channel assignment that minimizes the time of data collection and …

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) play a key role in the Industry 4.0 revolution.
The network infrastructure is critical to interconnect sensors and actuators and needs to …

Industry 4.0 digitization requirements have led to widespread adoption of industrial wireless
sensor networks (IWSNs) in manufacturing environments. These require strict control of the …

Software-defined networking (SDN) promises a wide range of application benefits to the
Internet of Things (IoT) including the flexible management of wireless sensor networks …

Convergecast is the transmission paradigm used by data gathering applications in wireless
sensor networks (WSNs). For efficiency reasons, a collision-free slotted medium access is …