Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) have the potential to contribute significantly in
areas such as cable replacement, mobility, flexibility, and cost reduction. Nevertheless, the …

In today's competitive industry marketplace, the companies face growing demands to
improve process efficiencies, comply with environmental regulations, and meet corporate …

A smart factory generates vast amounts of data that require transmission via large-scale
wireless networks. Thus, the reliability and real-time performance of large-scale wireless …

We present a novel approach for minimizing the energy consumption of medium access
control (MAC) protocols developed for duty-cycled wireless sensor networks (WSN) for the …

There are performance deficiencies that hamper the deployment of Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSNs) in critical monitoring applications. Such applications are characterized by …

Abstract The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is an infrastructure comprised of sensing,
computing, and communication devices, that obtain and process data to help understand the …

Abstract The IEEE 802.15. 4 standard is able to achieve low-power transmissions in low-rate
and short-distance Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs). It supports a Guaranteed …

A growing trend in the automation industry is to use wireless technologies to reduce cable
cost, deployment time, unlocking of stranded information in previously deployed devices …

Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are the fundamental components in the next-
generation factories. Due to massive heterogeneous data generated from large-scale …

Industrial applications of wireless sensor networks require timeliness in exchanging
messages among nodes. Although IEEE 802.15. 4 provides a superframe structure for real …