A smart city is a geographical area that uses modern technologies to facilitate the lives of its
residents. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are important components of smart cities …

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 …

Coverage is a fundamental issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It plays a important
role in network efficiency and performance. When sensor nodes are randomly scattered in …

Aiming at the key optimization problems of wireless sensor networks in complex industrial
application environments, such as the optimum coverage and the reliability of the network, a …

To ensure reliable Internet of Things (IoT) applications, this study provides a new intelligent
deployment technique for sensor nodes. The proposed intelligent deployment technique …

Recognizing critical nodes in complex networks has emerged as a challenging task across
several application areas. The critical node detection problem (CNDP) is an optimization …

Data collection is an important task in many mobile wireless sensor network (MWSN)
applications. The energy of sensor nodes around the sink depletes rapidly due to …

Target tracking (TT) is an important application of Internet of Things (IoT)-assisted wireless
sensor networks (WSNs) in which sensor nodes monitor and report the positions of …

Although researchers have investigated multiple facets of fault tolerance, majority of them
have overlooked fault tolerance in face structured WSNs. Motivated by this, we propose a …

Although monitoring and covering are fundamental goals of a wireless sensor network
(WSN), the accidental death of sensors or the running out of their energy would result in …