There has been an increase in research interest in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) as a
result of the potential for their widespread use in many different areas like home automation …

An automated irrigation system was developed to optimize water use for agricultural crops.
The system has a distributed wireless network of soil-moisture and temperature sensors …

Software Defined Networking promises to simplify network management tasks by separating
the control plane (a central controller) from the data plane (switches). OpenFlow has …

Critical infrastructure monitoring is one of the most important applications of a smart city. The
objective is to monitor the integrity of the structures (eg, buildings, bridges) and detect and …

In the past few years, wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) emerged as a low-cost
solution for healthcare applications. In WBSNs, biosensors collect periodically physiological …

This book was written having in mind researchers, practitioners, and students willingly to
learn, understand, or perfect the fundamental mechanisms behind intelligence and how they …

A new method is proposed in this paper to improve Low Energy Adaptive Clustering
Hierarchy (LEACH) by electing cluster heads according to the residual energy of the nodes …

Energy consumption remains as a major obstacle for full deployment and exploitation of
wireless sensor network (WSN) technology nowadays. This paper presents the design and …

In the recent years, wireless sensor networks (WSN) has been deployed in different real time
applications. Energy efficiency is the critical issue in the design and deployment of WSN …

Sampling rate adaptation is a critical issue in many resource-constrained networked
systems, including Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Existing algorithms are primarily …