Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have attracted substantial research interest, especially in
the context of performing monitoring and surveillance tasks. However, it is challenging to …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) use the unlicensed industrial, scientific, and medical
(ISM) band for transmissions. However, with the increasing usage and demand of these …

A cognitive radio wireless sensor network is one of the candidate areas where cognitive
techniques can be used for opportunistic spectrum access. Research in this area is still in its …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envisioned to be an important enabling technology for
smart grid (SG) due to the low cost, ease of deployment, and versatility of WSNs. Limited …

Internet of things (IoT) paradigm poses new challenges to the communication technology as
numerous heterogeneous objects will need to be connected. To address these issues new …

Wireless sensor networks operating in the license-free spectrum suffer from uncontrolled
interference as those spectrum bands become increasingly crowded. The emerging …

Recently, underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have been proposed to explore
underwater environments for scientific, commercial, and military purposes. However, long …

The cognitive radio (CR) paradigm for designing next‐generation wireless communications
systems is becoming increasingly popular, and different aspects of it are being implemented …

A cognitive wireless sensor network is considered, where a cluster of secondary sensors
utilize channel vacancies of a primary network and transmit their measurement samples to a …

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) with dynamic spectrum access (DSA) capability, namely
cognitive radio sensor networks (CRSN), is a promising solution for spectrum scarcity …