Nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are battery powered and oftentimes deployed in
remote and hostile locations. Energy conservation is, therefore, one of the primary goals of …

A Time Division Duplex (TDD) approach is demonstrated for voice communication in the
environment of wireless sensor networks. The architecture of the Voice Wireless Sensor …

Audio data processing and transmission in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) require
systems which satisfy the equilibrium between heavy data traffic and limited resources. In …

The throughput of IEEE 802.11 standard is significantly bounded by the associated Medium
Access Control (MAC) overhead. Because of the overhead, an upper limit exists for …

Recently, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been confirmed as an important low power
embedded computing platform. As a consequence it has become a significant research area …

Network lifetime and power consumption are crucial for any energy constrained ubiquitous
networks, such as wireless sensor network (WSN) and wireless body area network (WBAN) …

Reduction of power consumption and network's life expansion are crucial for a wireless
sensor network (WSN). This is typically performed by introducing low duty cycle in a sensor …

Short‐range radios with low data rate are gaining popularity due to their abundant
commercial availability. It is imperative that high‐speed multimedia would be an attractive …

Multi-dimensional properties of audio data and resource-poor nodes make voice processing
and transmission a challenging task for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). This study …

In a wireless network, it is quite common that a transmitter needs to make decisions on
scheduling and resource allocation with incomplete information. In this dissertation, we …