With the proliferation of wireless sensor networks (WSN), the issues about how to schedule
all the sensors in order to maximize the system's working time have been in the spotlight …

Maximizing the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a challenging problem.
Although some methods exist to address the problem in homogeneous WSNs, research on …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sensors near the sink can be burdened with a large
amount of traffic, because they have to transmit data generated by themselves and those far …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) play a vital role in various fields, but ensuring optimal
coverage poses a significant challenge due to the limited energy resources that constrain …

The Efficient-Energy Coverage (EEC) problem is an important issue when implementing
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) because of the need to limit energy use. In this paper, we …

The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have large applications in our modern life. Some of
the applications are monitoring, security, civil engineering and so on. The most important in …

Scheduling activities of network devices is an important and promising methodology for
prolonging the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The existing scheduling …

Wireless sensor networks monitor physical or environmental conditions. One of key
objectives during their deployment is full coverage of the monitoring region with a minimal …

In order to solve the critical issues in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), with concern for
limited sensor lifetime, nature-inspired algorithms are emerging as a suitable method …

Aiming at the problem that the ant colony algorithm (ACO) is slow to converge and easily fall
into the local optimal value in the path planning of multi-area wireless sensor networks …