The ubiquitous deployment of personal mobile devices today has boosted numerous mobile
sensing applications where sensing data should be timely collected and exchanged among …

Due to their favorable size, cost, and sustainability, battery-free devices are preferable in
various applications. However, battery-free devices operate only intermittently since ambient …

Device to Device (D2D) communication was first considered in out-band to manage energy
issues in the wireless sensor networks. The primary target was to secure information about …

Recent years have witnessed a surge of interest in parallel and distributed optimization
methods for large-scale systems. In particular, nonconvex large-scale optimization problems …

Neighbor discovery was initially conceived as a means to deal with energy issues at
deployment, where the main objective was to acquire information about network topology for …

Many of the algorithms that have been proposed in the field of distributed computation rely
on assumptions that require nodes to be aware of some global parameters. In this paper, we …

Efficient neighbor discovery in vehicular ad hoc networks is crucial to a number of
applications such as driving safety and data transmission. The main challenge is the high …

Data-gathering wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are operated unattended over long time
horizons to collect data in several applications such as those in climate monitoring and a …

A game-theoretic approach is proposed to investigate the problem of relay selection and
power control with quality of service constraints in multiple-access wireless body area …

Joint optimization of the physical layer security with end-to-end delay management is
studied in the uniquely constrained context of wireless body area networks (WBANs). A …