Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envisioned to be an important enabling technology for
smart grid (SG) due to the low cost, ease of deployment, and versatility of WSNs. Limited …

Improving the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is directly related to the energy
efficiency of computation and communication operations in the sensor nodes. Compressive …

The traditional many-to-one transmission pattern allows all sensor nodes to propagate their
packets toward a single sink in wireless sensor networks, resulting in imbalanced energy …

In practical wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the main mechanism for link-level data
exchange is through handshaking. To maximize the network lifetime, the transmission power …

Abstract In a typical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application, the basic communication
service is the transportation of the data collected from sensors to the base station. For …

Maximization of network lifetime through the efficient utilization of energy is one of the main
objectives in wireless sensor network (WSN) design. Although energy balancing throughout …

Transmission power control has paramount importance in the design of energy-efficient
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we systematically explore the effects of …

The success of widespread deployment and associated research efforts on wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) is undisputed. Yet, there is still a large uncharted territory for exploring and …

Recent technologies in electronics allow to build wireless sensor networks in on or around
the human body. Body Area Networks (BAN, is also called Body Sensor Networks) is not …

Route diversity improves the security of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) against
adversaries attempting to obtain sensitive sensor data. By limiting the fraction of data …