With the prevalence of low-power wireless devices in industrial applications, concerns about
timeliness and reliability are bound to continue despite the best efforts of researchers to …

The management of mobility in industrial wireless sensor networks (WSN) is especially
challenging because of the ad-hoc nature of the networks. To support the mobility of the user …

A smart factory network integrates various wireless networks to provide administrators with
advanced factory network management capabilities and optimized services. Supporting …

Handoff processes, the events where mobile nodes select the best access point available to
transfer data, have been well studied in cellular and WiFi networks. However, wireless …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been proposed for monitoring vital signs of patients
at home. This scenario requires inter-cell mobility; however, WSNs are not designed to …

Several applications have been proposed for mobile wireless sensor networks. Some of
these applications require the transfer of a large amount of data in a short period of time …

In this paper, we deal with mobility management for wireless sensor networks and we focus
on the first phase of a handoff procedure which is concerned with the mechanics of …

Abstract Many Wireless Sensor Network applications such as healthcare and wildlife
monitoring require the support of nodes mobility. However, the mobility has large impact on …

A 6LoWPAN WSN has mobility, so it can obtain more extensive application space only if it
provides good mobility support. However, the existing mobility protocols cannot work …

Connectivity restoration is an important aspect of the survivability strategies of wireless
networks. In industrial wireless networks, especially with mobile nodes, connectivity …