Coverage protocols for wireless sensor networks: Review and future directions

R Elhabyan, W Shi, M St-Hilaire - Journal of Communications …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The coverage problem in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be generally defined as a
measure of how effectively a network field is monitored by its sensor nodes. This problem …

Software-defined wireless sensor networks: A survey

H Mostafaei, M Menth - Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2018 - Elsevier
Software-defined networking (SDN) decouples data and control plane, ie, forwarding
elements are remotely configured by centralized controllers instead through distributed …

P-SEP: A prolong stable election routing algorithm for energy-limited heterogeneous fog-supported wireless sensor networks

PGV Naranjo, M Shojafar, H Mostafaei… - The Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Energy efficiency is one of the main issues that will drive the design of fog-supported
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Indeed, the behavior of such networks becomes very …

Maximizing coverage and maintaining connectivity in WSN and decentralized IoT: an efficient metaheuristic-based method for environment-aware node deployment

S Nematzadeh, M Torkamanian-Afshar… - Neural Computing and …, 2023 - Springer
The node deployment problem is a non-deterministic polynomial time (NP-hard). This study
proposes a new and efficient method to solve this problem without the need for predefined …

A sleep scheduling approach based on learning automata for WSN partialcoverage

H Mostafaei, A Montieri, V Persico… - Journal of Network and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are currently adopted in a vast variety of domains where
sensor energy consumption is a critical challenge because of the existing power constraints …

Multi-objective WSN deployment using genetic algorithms under cost, coverage, and connectivity constraints

MA Benatia, M Sahnoun, D Baudry, A Louis… - Wireless Personal …, 2017 - Springer
A wireless sensor network (WSN) deployment requires the identification of optimal network
nodes (sensor and sink) positions in an area of interest, to ensure the best network …

Distributed genetic algorithm for lifetime coverage optimisation in wireless sensor networks

AK Idrees, WL Al-Yaseen - International Journal of …, 2021 - inderscienceonline.com
In this paper, a protocol called distributed genetic algorithm for lifetime coverage
optimisation (DiGALCO) is suggested to preserve the coverage and enhance the lifetime of …

Energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks based on improved grey wolf optimizer

X Zhao, H Zhu, S Aleksic, Q Gao - KSII Transactions on Internet and …, 2018 - koreascience.kr
To utilize the energy of sensor nodes efficiently and extend the network lifetime maximally is
one of the primary goals in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Thus, designing an energy …

Outlier detection for wireless sensor networks using density‐based clustering approach

A Abid, A Kachouri, A Mahfoudhi - IET Wireless Sensor …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Outlier detection (OD) constitutes an important issue for many research areas namely data
mining, medicines, and sensor networks. It is helpful mainly in identifying intrusion, fraud …

A new individual-based model to simulate malware propagation in wireless sensor networks

FK Batista, A Martin del Rey, A Queiruga-Dios - Mathematics, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are a set of sensor devices deployed in a given area that
form a network without a pre-established architecture. Recently, malware has increased as a …