In recent years, technological advances and the ever-increasing power of embedded
systems have seen the emergence of so-called smart cities. In these cities, application …

Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks (LS-WSNs) are Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
composed of an impressive number of sensors, with inherent detection and processing …

Before discovering meaningful knowledge from big data systems, it is first necessary to build
a data-gathering infrastructure. Among many feasible data sources, wireless sensor …

Data collection is one of the main operations performed in Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs). Even if several interesting approaches on data collection have been proposed …

Recent advances in large-scale networked sensor technologies and the explosive growth in
big data computing have made it possible for new application deployments in smart cities …

The tremendous advancement in information and communication technology (ICT) has led
to the rise of a hot topic:" big data." Big data is defined as large data sets that are complex …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are becoming increasingly utilized in applications that
require remote collection of data on environmental conditions. In particular dense WSNs are …

The advent of various wireless technologies has paved the way for the realization of new
infrastructures and applications for smart cities. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are one …

Big data through cloud computing is an excellent way to offload significant amounts of
computation and data from both data centers and terminal devices, due to its flexibility …

Sensor Networks are increasingly playing a fundamental role in many application scenarios
such as agriculture, maritime, healthcare, industrial and even military application. However …