Written by award-winning engineers whose research has been sponsored by the US
National Science Foundation (NSF), IBM, and Cisco's University Research Program …

The IPv6 routing protocol for low-power and lossy networks (RPL) provides the multipoint-to-
point, point-to-multipoint, and point-to-point routing mechanisms for wireless sensor …

As wireless sensor network becomes pervasive, new requirements have been continuously
emerged. How-ever, the most of research efforts in wireless sensor network are focused on …

Wireless Sensor Networks overcome the difficulties of other monitoring systems. However,
they require further efficiencies for Outdoor Environment Monitoring (OEM) applications due …

Symmetric encryption is the most widely adopted security solution for wireless sensor
networks. The main open issue in this context is represented by the establishment of …

The usage of sensors is emerging in the nowadays scenario where safety related
applications are more and more used. These applications have timing constraints that need …

In this paper, a random access protocol for quality of service (QoS) support targeted for
medical wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs) is proposed. In this proposal, the …

In industrial contexts, most of process control applications use wired communication
networks. The reliability of wired networks is indisputable and extensively demonstrated by …

Wireless communication in a car has several advantages, given that demanded safety and
real-time requirements are fulfilled. This paper presents a wireless MAC protocol designed …

This paper presents a comparative study of existing real-time MAC layer protocols for
wireless sensor networks. Then, a new real-Time MAC protocol is presented that is based …