Emergence of applications of wireless sensor networks in various fields over time requires to
acknowledge existing solutions which have been proposed in history to overcome various …

Energy-aware data collection is of paramount importance for robotic and wireless sensor
networks. Although static sink-aided cluster-based protocols provide energy-efficient …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the energy-hole or hotspot problem is an important,
challenging issue because it isolates some nodes from the sink. The hotspot problem is …

The hotspot problem is one of the primary challenges in the wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) because it isolates the sink node from the remaining part of the WSN. A mobile sink …

Past studies reveal the benefits of using Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Networks to bring
about increased data collection efficiency and overall network performance in numerous …

In Wireless sensor networks, the hotspot problem is challenging because it degrades the
data gathering process by isolating one or more sensor nodes. This challenge is mitigated …

Wireless Sensor Networks based on Mobile Sinks (MS) are becoming more popular
because of their benefits in enhancing performance and minimizing unequal energy usage …

In this work, our motivation focuses on an energy-efficient data collection problem by a
mobile sink, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with limited battery capacity, in a robot …

This paper deals with the problem of large-scale data collection in wireless sensor networks
equipped with multiple multi-interface mobile sinks. Employing mobile sinks for data …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can effectively address the issue with the static sink's sink-
hole or hot spot brought on by multi-hop routing by data collecting using mobile sinks (MS) …