This paper provides an overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) with emphasis on enabling
technologies, protocols, and application issues. The IoT is enabled by the latest …

In recent years, industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) have emerged as an important
research theme with applications spanning a wide range of industries including automation …

Time slotted operation is a well-proven approach to achieve highly reliable low-power
networking through scheduling and channel hopping. It is, however, difficult to apply time …

Abstract The so-called Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is expected to transform our world,
and in depth modernize very different domains such as manufacturing, energy, agriculture …

Wireless sensor–actuator networks (WSANs) offer an appealing communication technology
for process automation applications to incorporate the Internet of Things (IoT). In contrast to …

Many applications in low-power wireless networks require complex coordination between
their members. Swarms of robots or sensors and actuators in industrial closed-loop control …

As manufacturing systems shift from automated patterns to smart frameworks such as smart
factories in Industry 4.0, industrial wireless networks (IWNs) are serving as promising …

Wireless sensor-actuator networks enable an efficient and cost-effective approach for
industrial sensing and control applications. To satisfy the real-time requirement of such …

Wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs) are gaining momentum in industrial process
automation as a communication infrastructure for lowering deployment and maintenance …

Multicast is an important way to diffuse data in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks
(WSNs), where nodes can receive data only in active state. The communication delay can …