In the Internet of Things (IoT), various devices operate collaboratively in collecting data,
relaying information to one another, and processing information intelligently. Due to …

The Internet of Things (IoT) aims to transform the human society toward becoming intelligent,
convenient, and efficient with potentially enormous economic and environmental benefits …

Due to the prominent advantages in network lifetime and energy balance, the application of
multi-sink wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is becoming more and more widespread …

Abstract Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication technologies enable autonomous
networking among devices without human intervention. Such autonomous control is of …

Abstract A mobile Wireless Sensor Network (mWSN) is composed of a large number of tiny,
inexpensive resource-constrained sensors scattered in the field of interest, with the sink …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) find application in various fields like environmental
monitoring, health-care, land security, and many more. To ease our day-to-day activity …

Decision diagrams are graphical structures based on Shannon's decomposition. They have
been extensively used for representing and manipulating logic functions in areas such as …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of sensors connected with a wireless
communications infrastructure designed to monitor and send collected data to the primary …

Communication reliability of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is essential to ensure the
correct and reliable operation of the network. Two distinct communication paradigms exist in …

The paper presents an approach for evaluating reliability of standby systems composed of
multi-state elements with constant state transition rates. Any standby elements can be …