The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to transform the human society toward becoming intelligent,
convenient, and efficient with potentially enormous economic and environmental benefits …

Background: Through smart micro sensor devices networked via wireless links and the
Internet, wireless sensor networks offer unprecedented opportunities for diverse …

The reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSN) depends on both network connectivity and
sensing coverage. Common-cause failures (CCF) can contribute significantly to the WSN …

Presently, star, mesh, tree, and clustered hierarchical architecture have emerged as the
choice topologies for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Each topology has its own pros and …

In this paper we consider the problem of modeling and evaluating the infrastructure
communication reliability (ICR) of wireless sensor networks (WSN). Our approach is …

In this paper, we consider the problem of modeling and analyzing the application
communication reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSN) with different topologies …

Recent advances in wireless sensor networks have led to many new routing protocols
specifically designed for sensor networks. Due to the nodes equip limited energy and …