The recent technological advances in micro electro-mechanical systems have promoted the
development of a powerful class of sensor-based distributed intelligent systems capable of …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes with sensing, computation and
wireless communications capabilities. These sensor networks interconnect a several other …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consisting of a large number of tiny sensors can be an
effective tool for gathering data in diverse kinds of environments. The data collected by each …

Swarm intelligence is a relatively novel field. It addresses the study of the collective
behaviors of systems made by many components that coordinate using decentralized …

To maximize network lifetime in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) the paths for data
transfer are selected in such a way that the total energy consumed along the path is …

Static program analyses and transformations for Java face many problems when analyzing
programs that use reflection or custom class loaders: How can a static analysis know which …

This book provides a comprehensive yet easy coverage of ad hoc and sensor networks and
fills the gap of existing literature in this growing field. It emphasizes that there is a major …

Mobility of sensor nodes in wireless sensor network (WSN) has posed new challenges
particularly in packet delivery ratio and energy consumption. Some real applications impose …

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) consists of many low-cost, small devices. Usually, as they
are deployed to an open and unprotected region, they are vulnerable to various types of …

Wireless sensor networks are composed of a large number of sensor nodes with limited
energy resources. One critical issue in wireless sensor networks is how to gather sensed …