The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has accelerated strong interests in the
development of low-power wireless sensors. Today, wireless sensors are integrated within …

In the past two decades, network clustering has been proven as efficient approach for data
collection and routing in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It provides several advantages …

The issue of energy balancing in Wireless Sensor Networks is a pivotal one, crucial in their
deployment. This problem can be subdivided in three areas:(i) energy conservation …

Energy efficiency is one of the main challenges in developing Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs). Since communication has the largest share in energy consumption, efficient routing …

Cluster-based hierarchical routing protocols play an essential role in decreasing the energy
consumption of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A low-energy adaptive clustering …

It is not uncommon that cellular communication infrastructures will likely be in a failure state
when disaster strikes, eg, floods, earthquakes, and forest fires. Therefore, developing an …

The energy harvesting methods enable WSNs nodes to last potentially forever with the help
of energy harvesting subsystems for continuously providing energy, and storing it for future …

Over the recent era, Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has attracted much attention among
industrialists and researchers owing to its contribution to numerous applications including …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the sensor nodes (SNs) are deployed to acquire the
data from the area of interest and transmit it to the sink via multi-hop communications. Due to …

The energy consumption and coverage range of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are
major challenges in UAV-based postdisaster communications. To address these challenges …