An industrial perspective on wireless sensor networks—A survey of requirements, protocols, and challenges

K Ovsthus, LM Kristensen - IEEE communications surveys & …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are applicable in numerous domains, including industrial
automation where WSNs may be used for monitoring and control of industrial plants and …

Game theory for energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks: Latest trends

T AlSkaif, MG Zapata, B Bellalta - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the area of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), improving energy efficiency and network
lifetime is one of the most important and challenging issues. Most of the considered WSNs …

Energy harvesting and battery power based routing in wireless sensor networks

MH Anisi, G Abdul-Salaam, MYI Idris, AWA Wahab… - Wireless …, 2017 - Springer
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a collection of several small and inexpensive battery-
powered nodes, commonly used to monitor regions of interests and to collect data from the …

Improvements of energy-efficient techniques in WSNs: A MAC-protocol approach

VL Quintero, C Estevez, ME Orchard… - … Surveys & Tutorials, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The pervasiveness of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) across different applications keeps
increasing due to their versatility, although energy consumption is a huge constraint for …

Multi-hop communication in the uplink for LPWANs

S Barrachina-Muñoz, B Bellalta, T Adame, A Bel - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Low-Power Wide Area Networks (LPWANs) have arisen as a promising
communication technology for supporting Internet of Things (IoT) services due to their low …

Thorough IoT testbed characterization: From proof-of-concept to repeatable experimentations

GZ Papadopoulos, A Gallais, G Schreiner, E Jou… - Computer Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
In this paper, we explore the role of simulators and testbeds in the development procedure
of protocols or applications for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and Internet of Things …

Wireless sensor networks for smart grid applications: a case study on link reliability and node lifetime evaluations in power distribution systems

G Tuna, VC Gungor, K Gulez - International Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent advances in embedded systems and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) made it
possible to realize low-cost monitoring and automation systems for smart grids. This paper …

Receiver-initiated medium access control protocols for wireless sensor networks

X Fafoutis, A Di Mauro, MD Vithanage, N Dragoni - Computer Networks, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the fundamental building blocks of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the Medium
Access Control (MAC) protocol, that part of the system governing when and how two …

Energy efficiency of MAC protocols in low data rate wireless multimedia sensor networks: A comparative study

T AlSkaif, B Bellalta, MG Zapata, JMB Ordinas - Ad Hoc Networks, 2017 - Elsevier
Some new application scenarios for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) such as urban
resilience, smart house/building, smart agriculture and animal farming, among others, can …

Protocols for wireless sensor networks: A survey

A Kochhar, P Kaur, S Sharma, P Singh - Journal of Telecommunications and …, 2018 - jtit.pl
This paper presents a survey on the MAC and network layer of Wireless Sensor Networks.
Performance requirements of the MAC layer are explored. MAC layer protocols for battery …