The evolution of the wireless network systems over decades has been providing new
services to the users with the help of innovative network and device technologies. In recent …

With the extensive application of underwater acoustic sensor networks (UANs) in various
fields such as commerce, marine environmental research, and national defense, the need …

Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) comprise numerous underwater wireless
sensor nodes dispersed in the marine environment, which find applicability in several areas …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) play an important role in facilitating data collection in
remote areas due to their remote mobility. The collected data require processing close to the …

The need of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) having mobile sensor nodes
has been there for a long time in form of underwater warfare or explorations by autonomous …

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have emerged as a viable networking
approach due to their numerous aquatic applications in recent years. As a vital component …

Data delivery in harsh underwater channels consumes a higher transmission power than
that in terrestrial networks. However, due to the complexity of the underwater environment …

LEACH-like clustering protocols focus mainly on the low-power, low-rate, and low-wakeup
network applications, and work in a multiround clustering strategy that causes frequent …

In wireless sensor networks, each sensor node has a finite amount of energy to expend. The
clustering method is an efficient way to deal with the imbalance in node energy …

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are an emerging multidisciplinary intersection of cutting-
edge research fields, and their advantages in terms of freedom of formation, high signal-to …