Collaborative sensing leverages the cooperation of a collection of sensors to complete a
large-scale sensing task in Internet of Things (IoT). Although some previous studies have …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have recently rapidly grown to facilitate a wide range of
innovative applications that can fundamentally change the way cyber-physical systems …

Sensor networks, which consist of sensor nodes each capable of sensing environment and
transmitting data, have lots of applications in battlefield surveillance, environmental …

User generated content on Twitter (produced at an enormous rate of 340 million tweets per
day) provides a rich source for gleaning people's emotions, which is necessary for deeper …

The coverage optimization problem has been examined thoroughly for omni-directional
sensor networks in the past decades. However, the coverage problem in directional sensor …

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is one of the interesting issues in the information technology
domain. It is used in various fields such as medicine, agriculture, meteorology, etc. that …

Wireless sensor network systems diffuse an intensive, array of small, low-cost sensors that
monitor the environment. The system can be extending anywhere, even in the place which is …

One of the main goals of sensor networks is to provide accurate information about a sensing
field for an extended period of time. This requires collecting measurements from as many …

Node deployment is one of the most crucial issues in wireless sensor networks because it
determines the deployment cost, the detection capability of the networks, and even the …

Unlike convectional omni-directional sensors that always have an omni-angle of sensing
range, directional sensors may have a limited angle of sensing range due to technical …