The collaborative and low-cost nature of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) brings significant
advantages over traditional communication technologies used in today's electric power …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) has important applications such as remote environmental
monitoring and target tracking. This has been enabled by the availability, particularly in …

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 …

Topology Control (TC) is one of the most important techniques used in wireless ad hoc and
sensor networks to reduce energy consumption (which is essential to extend the network …

In this paper, we tackle one fundamental problem in Underwater Sensor Networks (UWSNs):
robust, scalable and energy efficient routing. UWSNs are significantly different from …

The applications of wireless sensor networks comprise a wide variety of scenarios. In most
of them, the network is composed of a significant number of nodes deployed in an extensive …

In this article, we investigate the impact of radio irregularity on wireless sensor networks.
Radio irregularity is a common phenomenon that arises from multiple factors, such as …

Experimental studies have demonstrated that the behavior of real links in low-power
wireless networks (such as wireless sensor networks) deviates to a large extent from the …

Many wireless sensor network applications must resolve the inherent conflict between
energy efficient communication and the need to achieve desired quality of service such as …

Nowadays energy crisis and global warming problems are hanging over everyone's head,
urging much research work on energy saving. In the ICT industry, which is becoming a major …