Efficient and intelligent environment awareness is one of the key aspects for enabling future
green networks, especially for wireless ad hoc networks considering the limited resources …

Wireless underground sensor networks consist of sensors that are buried under the ground
and communicate through soil medium. Due to channel characteristics, the connectivity …

The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs)
typically involves multihop relaying combined with sophisticated signal processing to serve …

In this paper, we investigate the network connectivity of wireless sensor networks with
directional antennas. In particular, we establish a general framework to analyze the network …

Vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a type of promising application-oriented network
deployed along a highway for safety and emergency information delivery, entertainment …

This paper concerns the eavesdropping attacks from the eavesdroppers' perspective, which
is new since most of current studies consider the problem from the good nodes' perspective …

Extensive attention has been given to the use of cognitive radio technology in underwater
acoustic networks since the acoustic spectrum became scarce due to the proliferation of …

In underlay cognitive radio networks (CRNs), the connectivity of secondary users (SUs) is
difficult to be guaranteed due to the existence of primary users. Most prior studies only …

SUMMARY A vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) is a highly mobile wireless ad hoc network
formed by vehicles equipped with communication facilities. Developing multihop …

Directional antennas can increase the received power in specific directions while reducing it
in other directions. Utilizing this unique feature, we configure directional antennas at …