Climate-smart forestry (CSF) is an emerging branch of sustainable adaptive forest
management aimed at enhancing the potential of forests to adapt to and mitigate climate …

User authentication in wireless sensor networks (WSN) is a critical security issue due to their
unattended and hostile deployment in the field. Since the sensor nodes are equipped with …

The Internet of Things (IoT) has been realized as one of the most promising networking
paradigms that bridge the gap between the cyber and physical world. Developing green …

Anonymity is among the important properties of two-factor authentication schemes for
wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to preserve user privacy. Though impressive efforts have …

The emergence and convergence of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
are fundamentally transforming the use of technology, and in particular concerning the …

One of the primary objectives of wireless sensor networks is to provide full coverage of a
sensing field as long as possible. Many tasks-such as object tracking and battlefield …

In two-tiered wireless sensor networks (WSNs), relay node placement is one of the key
factors impacting the network energy consumption and the system overhead. In this paper, a …

The internet of things (IoT) is one of the emerging network paradigms that are reducing the
distance between the physical and cyber world. In wireless sensor Network (WSN)-assisted …

Prolonging network lifetime is a crucial issue for wireless sensor networks, as sensor nodes
operate on limited amounts of battery energy, and replacing or recharging nodes is still quite …

Energy is one of the scarcest resources in wireless sensor network (WSN). One fundamental
way of conserving energy is judicious deployment of sensor nodes within the network area …