The IEEE 802.15.4 standard is recognized as one of the most successful for short-range low-rate wireless communications and is used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. To improve the performance of wireless networks, interest in protocols that...
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have attracted increasing attention in recent years because of their numerous applications in ocean monitoring, resource discovery and tactical surveillance. However, the design of reliable and efficient tr...
Due to the physical characteristics of acoustic channels, the performance of underwater acoustic communication networks (UACNs) is more susceptible to the impacts of multipath and Doppler effects. Channel quality can serve as a measure of the reliabi...
A reliable energy-efficient routing protocol plays a key role in underwater data transmission. In the face of acoustic communication challenges in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs), including long propagation delay, topology change, limited...
Although the conventional duty cycle MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) such as RMAC perform well in terms of saving energy and reducing end-to-end delivery latency, they were designed independently and require an extra routing protoco...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), there are numerous factors that may cause network congestion problems, such as the many-to-one communication modes, mutual interference of wireless links, dynamic changes of network topology and the memory-restrain...
Transmission latency minimization and energy efficiency improvement are two main challenges in multi-hop Cognitive Radio Networks (CRN), where the knowledge of topology and spectrum statistics are hard to obtain. For this reason, a cross-layer routin...
The issues inherent in caring for an ever-increasing aged population has been the subject of endless debate and continues to be a hot topic for political discussion. The use of hospital-based facilities for the monitoring of chronic physiological con...
When a network has relay nodes, there is a risk that a part of the information is leaked to an untrusted relay. Secure network coding (secure NC) is known as a method to resolve this problem, which enables the secrecy of the message when the message...
Underwater acoustic sensor networks (UASNs) have become more and more important in ocean exploration applications, such as ocean monitoring, pollution detection, ocean resource management, underwater device maintenance, etc. In underwater acoustic se...
Survivability is a critical concern in WSNs, heavily influenced by energy efficiency. Addressing severe energy constraints in WSNs requires solutions that meet application goals while prolonging network life. This paper presents an Energy Optimizatio...
Wireless and power line communication hybrid relay technology can realize complementary advantages and comprehensively improve the communication coverage and performance of power Internet of Things. In order to study the mechanism of the physical lay...
Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) have recently attracted much attention due to their ability to discover and monitor the aquatic environment. However, acoustic communication has posed some significant challenges, such as high propagation delay, low...
The conventional OLSR protocol faces substantial challenges in highly dynamic and interference-intensive UAV environments, including high mobility, frequent topology changes, and insufficient adaptability to electromagnetic interference. This paper p...
In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become the trend for different types of research and applications. UAVs can accomplish some technical and risky tasks while still being safe, mobile, and inexpensive to operate. However, UAVs need...
A tactical network mainly consists of software-defined radios (SDRs) integrated with programmable and reconfigurable features that provide the addition and customization of different waveforms for different scenarios, e.g., situational awareness, vid...
Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging comprehensive technology that can deeply integrate with e-health and smart sports. As a wearable network, improving the quality of network service and user experience is crucial. Due to the miniaturize...
To address the severe coverage blind spots and concurrent collision bottlenecks faced by LoRa networks in dense deployments and complex three-dimensional (3D) occlusion environments, this paper proposes a distributed cross-layer protocol framework fo...
The long propagation delay of acoustic links leads to the complex randomness of packet collision, which reduces the network packet delivery rate (PDR) and aggravates network congestion. A single vector hydrophone with directional reception characteri...
This paper presents an Energy Efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for clustered wireless sensor networks that aims to improve energy efficiency and delay performance. The proposed protocol employs an adaptive cross-layer intra-cluster sche...
Opportunistic networks, an evolution of mobile Ad Hoc networks (MANETs), offer decentralized communication without relying on preinstalled infrastructure, enabling nodes to route packets through different mobile nodes dynamically. However, due to the...
Preamble sampling-based MAC protocols designed forWireless Sensor Networks (WSN) are aimed at prolonging the lifetime of the nodes by scheduling their times of activity. This scheduling exploits node synchronization to find the right trade-off betwee...
Wireless sensor networks with mobile collectors or sinks face some challenges regarding the data collection process and the continuous connectivity and delivering of data while the mobile sink is moving throughout the network. These challenges increa...
A new phase of evolution of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication has started where vertical Internet of Things (IoT) deployments dedicated to a single application domain gradually change to multi-purpose IoT infrastructures that service different a...
Recent developments in electronics and wireless communications have enabled the improvement of low-power and low-cost wireless sensors networks (WSNs). One of the most important challenges in WSNs is to increase the network lifetime due to the limite...
The co-existence of event-driven critical traffic and time-driven periodic traffic inevitably exacerbates cross-layer network congestion in resource-constrained edge environments. Although hybrid protocol architectures integrating the Constrained App...
Full-duplex (FD) technology holds great promise for enhancing the spectral efficiency of Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). However, the practical performance gain of FD over Half-Duplex (HD) is highly sensitive to t...
Quality of service (QoS)-aware data gathering in static-channel based underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) is severely limited due to location and time-dependent acoustic channel communication characteristics. This paper proposes a novel cross...
Nowadays, technology is developed rapidly in communication technology. Several new technologies have been introduced due to the evolution of wireless communication and this provided the way to communicate among vehicles, using a Vehicular Ad-Hoc Netw...
The OSI model used to be a common network model for years. In the case of ad hoc networks with dynamic topology and difficult radio communications conditions, gradual departure is happening from the classical kind of OSI network model with a clear de...
Recently, the cross-layer design for the wireless sensor network communication protocol has become more and more important and popular. Considering the disadvantages of the traditional cross-layer routing algorithms, in this paper we propose a new fu...
Underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) have emerged as a promising technology to monitor and explore the oceans instead of traditional undersea wireline instruments. Traditional routing protocols are inefficient for UWSNs due to the specific nat...
The emergence of Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN) technologies allowed the development of revolutionary Internet Of Things (IoT) applications covering large areas with thousands of devices. However, connectivity may be a challenge for non-line-of-...
Visual sensor networks (VSNs) comprised of battery-operated electronic devices endowed with low-resolution cameras have expanded the applicability of a series of monitoring applications. Those types of sensors are interconnected by ad hoc error-prone...
Magnetic induction (MI)-operated wireless sensor networks (WSNs), due to their similar performance in air, underwater, and underground mediums, are rapidly emerging networks that offer a wide range of applications, including mine prevention, power gr...
In intelligent meter reading and other applications, power line communication can use relay technology to solve the problem of cross-station or long-distance reliable communication. This study investigates the combined impact of the physical and Medi...
Wireless sensor networks employ duty-cycles to save energy, with the cost of enlargement of end-to-end latency. Cross-layer protocols that use anycast medium access control achieve latency reduction in asynchronous duty-cycled wireless sensor network...
The paper presents a new cross-layer bridge protocol between IEEE 802.15.4, IEEE 11073 and IEEE 802.11 for wearable-enabled health-data aggregation formations. The protocol addresses the new reality as imposed by the recent evolution of sensors and n...
The application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to Digital Twin (DT) in smart manufacturing has opened significant opportunities for real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and closed-loop control; however, the inherent latency that exis...
In the paper, we propose a reliable asynchronous image transfer protocol, RAIT. RAIT applies a double sliding window method to node-to-node transfer, with one sliding window for the receiving queue, which is used to prevent packet loss caused by comm...
In this paper, we investigate the possibility of the cross-layer design of a distributed random access scheme with considering physical (PHY) and multiple access control (MAC) layers, which utilizes the interference cancellation technique. In this re...
With the widespread adoption of Wi-Fi 7 in campus networks, high-density access and large-scale research data transmission challenge traditional congestion control algorithms. TCP-bottleneck bandwidth and round-trip propagation time (BBR) lacks deep...
This article proposes a protocol layer trust-based intrusion detection scheme for wireless sensor networks. Unlike existing work, the trust value of a sensor node is evaluated according to the deviations of key parameters at each protocol layer consi...
This study proposes a novel power-efficient and anti-fading clustering based on a cross-layer that is specific to the time-varying fading characteristics of channels in the monitoring of coal mine faces with wireless sensor networks. The number of ac...
By exchanging information directly between non-adjacent protocol layers, cross-layer (CL) interaction can significantly improve and optimize network performances such as energy efficiency and delay. This is particularly important for wireless sensor...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are fundamental to the expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), yet severe node energy constraints remain the primary bottleneck for remote environmental monitoring where power infrastructure is unavailable. Because...
Today’s critical goals in sensor network research are extending the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and lowering power consumption. A WSN necessitates the use of energy-efficient communication networks. Clustering, storage, communic...
Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication has become an end-to-end cyber–physical evidence problem rather than a radio-interface problem alone: sensed events, transmitted messages, edge computation, trust decisions, and control or service outco...
In this paper, we propose the Adaptive Power-Controlled Energy-Efficient Depth-Based Routing (APC-EEDBR) protocol. This protocol is designed to address the challenges posed by complex environments and limited resources in underwater-sensor networks....
The rapid development of large model-driven agent applications, such as digital assistants and robots, requires 6G radio access networks (RAN) to deliver enhanced flexibility, adaptability, and low-latency capabilities. However, the existing RAN user...
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