Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to change the everyday life of its users by enabling data
exchanges among pervasive things through the Internet. Such a broad aim, however, puts …

Differential Equations are very important tools in Mathematical Analysis. They are widely
found in mathematics itself and in its applications to statistics, computing, electrical circuit …

The vast majority of real-world networks are scale-free, loopy, and sparse, with a power-law
degree distribution and a constant average degree. In this paper, we study first-order …

A typical data and energy integrated communication network (DEIN) conceives a
conventional base station, which is capable of simultaneously transmitting the data and …

The time synchronization protocol is indispensable in various applications of wireless
sensor networks, such as scheduling, monitoring, and tracking. Numerous protocols and …

In order to support information uploading of batteryless user equipments (UEs), a full-duplex
(FD) hybrid access point (H-AP) is relied upon for downlink wireless power transfer (WPT) …

Slow convergence is a major drawback of average-based consensus time synchronization
protocols, particularly in large or sparse wireless sensor networks. The convergence speed …

We study second-order consensus dynamics with random additive disturbances. To quantify
the robustness of these networks, we investigate three different performance measures: the …

Average-based consensus time synchronization protocols have been widely used in
wireless sensor networks owing to their robustness against a single point of failures. In these …

Time synchronization is a key issue in wireless ad hoc networks. Due to the dynamic
characteristics of such networks, distributed synchronization (DS) is preferred for its …