Since the emergence of wireless communication networks, a plethora of research papers
focus their attention on the quality aspects of wireless links. The analysis of the rich body of …

Radio link quality estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has a fundamental impact
on the network performance and also affects the design of higher-layer protocols. Therefore …

Higher layer applications, such as routing protocols and robot navigation systems,
commonly depend upon link quality (LQ) estimates for improving the efficiency and reliability …

A variety of industrial applications are deployed in underground environments, such as soil
condition assessment and pipeline monitoring (PM). Wireless underground sensor networks …

Abstract Recently, Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) has witnessed
significant attention from both academia and industries in research and development, due to …

Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) are a category of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) with buried nodes, which communicate wirelessly through soil with sensor …

As an integral part of reliable communication in wireless networks, effective link estimation is
essential for routing protocols. However, due to the dynamic nature of wireless channels …

Radio link quality estimation is essential for protocols and mechanisms such as routing,
mobility management and localization, particularly for low-power wireless networks such as …

Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have been applied in many civilian and
military scenarios, but it is vulnerable to various security threats due to the broadcast …

Nowadays, the most important aspects of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are to make
optimal use of and direct the limited energy of sensor nodes towards the desired application …