Intelligent reflecting surface-aided wireless communications: A tutorial

Q Wu, S Zhang, B Zheng, C You… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is an enabling technology to engineer the radio signal
propagation in wireless networks. By smartly tuning the signal reflection via a large number …

A survey on coverage and connectivity issues in wireless sensor networks

C Zhu, C Zheng, L Shu, G Han - Journal of Network and Computer …, 2012 - Elsevier
A wireless sensor network (WSN) is composed of a group of small power-constrained nodes
with functions of sensing and communication, which can be scattered over a vast region for …

Topology management techniques for tolerating node failures in wireless sensor networks: A survey

M Younis, IF Senturk, K Akkaya, S Lee, F Senel - Computer networks, 2014 - Elsevier
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) nodes often operate unattended in a collaborative
manner to perform some tasks. In many applications, the network is deployed in harsh …

Strategies and techniques for node placement in wireless sensor networks: A survey

M Younis, K Akkaya - Ad Hoc Networks, 2008 - Elsevier
The major challenge in designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the support of the
functional, such as data latency, and the non-functional, such as data integrity, requirements …

On coverage issues in directional sensor networks: A survey

MA Guvensan, AG Yavuz - Ad Hoc Networks, 2011 - Elsevier
The coverage optimization problem has been examined thoroughly for omni-directional
sensor networks in the past decades. However, the coverage problem in directional sensor …

Mobility and intruder prior information improving the barrier coverage of sparse sensor networks

S He, J Chen, X Li, X Shen… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The barrier coverage problem in emerging mobile sensor networks has been an interesting
research issue due to many related real-life applications. Existing solutions are mainly …

[PDF][PDF] Genetic algorithm for hierarchical wireless sensor networks.

S Hussain, AW Matin, O Islam - J. Networks, 2007 - Citeseer
Large scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs) can be used for various pervasive and
ubiquitous applications such as security, health-care, industry automation, agriculture …

Achieving source location privacy and network lifetime maximization through tree-based diversionary routing in wireless sensor networks

J Long, M Dong, K Ota, A Liu - IEEE Access, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been proliferating due to their wide applications in
both military and commercial use. However, one critical challenge to WSNs implementation …

Placement optimization of energy and information access points in wireless powered communication networks

S Bi, R Zhang - IEEE transactions on wireless communications, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The applications of wireless power transfer technology to wireless communications can help
build a wireless powered communication network (WPCN) with more reliable and …

On maximizing the lifetime of wireless sensor networks in event-driven applications with mobile sinks

F Tashtarian, MHY Moghaddam… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent studies have shown that utilizing a mobile sink (MS) to harvest and carry data from a
wireless sensor network (WSN) can enhance network operations and increase the network …