One of the major problems in wireless multihop networks is the scheduling of transmissions
in a fair and efficient manner. Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) seems to be one of the …

As an effective distributed renewable energy utilization paradigm, a microgrid is expected to
realize the high integration of the industrial cyber-physical systems (CPS), which has …

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are a promising technology to provide
oceanographers with environmental data in real time. Suitable network topologies to monitor …

While control and user (data) plane separation (CUPS) through clustering improves the
scalability of ad hoc networks in comparison to flat topologies, it introduces additional …

Modern wireless communication networks frequently have lower application throughput due
to higher number of collisions and subsequent retransmission of data packets. Moreover …

In this work, a multi-hop string network with a single sink node is analyzed. A periodic
optimal scheduling for TDMA operation that considers the characteristic long propagation …

Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) are more and more wildly used for a variety
of applications nowadays. The quality-of-service (QoS), as a measure of system …

A single Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol is usually sub-optimal in terms of energy
consumption and network performance. When dealing with a wireless low-power network in …

Nowadays, marine scientists have a growing interest to know what happens in the ocean
water column. One potential technology is to use underwater acoustic sensor networks that …

While clustering improves the scalability of ad hoc networks in comparison to flattopologies,
it introduces additional challenges for resource scheduling when contention-free medium …