Ensuring the reliable operation of all nodes in a road network is often challenging due to the influence of managed resources and other dynamic factors. This study proposes a method for identifying critical nodes based on multi-attribute decision-mak...
The volume of streaming sensor data from various environmental sensors continues to increase rapidly due to wider deployments of IoT devices at much greater scales than ever before. This, in turn, causes massive increase in the fog, cloud network tra...
This paper proposes an optimization method to improve the radar anti-jamming strategy by using the predictability of left game interval. Firstly, we propose the concept of key time nodes in radar/jammer confrontation and analyze its predictability. S...
Real-time task scheduling in multi-core systems is a crucial research area, especially for parallel task scheduling, where the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) model is commonly used to represent task dependencies. However, existing research shows that r...
Time series prediction is crucial for advanced control and management of complex systems, while the actual data are usually highly nonlinear and nonstationary. A novel broad echo state network is proposed herein for the prediction problem of complex...
Directional flying ad hoc networks (FANETs) equipped with phased array antennas are pivotal for applications demanding high-capacity, low-latency communications. While directional beamforming extends the communication range, it necessitates the intri...
Intersections are known to cause significant changes in traffic states. However, existing link-level trajectory optimization methods often overlook intersection information, making it challenging to preserve key traffic state features during the opti...
To evaluate and improve the quality of land surface albedo products, validation with ground measurements of albedo is crucial over the spatially and temporally heterogeneous land surface. One of the essential steps for satellite albedo product valida...
A novel hybrid Harris Hawk-Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm (HHAOA) for optimizing the Industrial Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) and real-time pressure process control was proposed in this research article. The proposed algorithm uses inspiration fro...
In the integrated energy system, significant potential exists for the regulation of the heat storage capacity within the heating network. In relation to this attribute, the establishment of the quasi-dynamic model for the heating network is accomplis...
In an electricity and heat integrated energy system, the transmission of thermal energy encounters significant delays, and the delays are often not integer multiples of the dispatch interval. This mismatch poses challenges for achieving coordinated d...
Soybean is a key global crop for food and oil production, playing a vital role in ensuring food security and supplying plant-based proteins and oils. Accurate information on soybean distribution is essential for yield forecasting, agricultural manage...
The spatial topology of large-scale low-Earth-orbit satellite communication networks is dynamically time-variant, and the load on the output ports of network nodes is continuously changing. The lengths and numbers of output port queues at each networ...
In this paper, a simple and flexible method for increasing the lifetime of fixed or mobile wireless sensor networks is proposed. Based on past residual energy information reported by the sensor nodes, the sink node or another central node dynamically...
The widespread adoption of edge computing for resource-constrained devices presents challenges in computational straggler issues, primarily due to the heterogeneity of edge node resources. This research addresses these issues by introducing a novel r...
This paper presents and explores a novel methodology for solving the problem of a water distribution network contamination event, which includes determining the exact source of contamination, the contamination start and end times and the injected con...
In many wireless sensor network applications, the possibility of exceptions occurring is relatively small, so in a normal situation, data obtained at sequential time points by the same node are time correlated, while, spatial correlation may exist in...
Measurement losses adversely affect the performance of target tracking. The sensor network’s life span depends on how efficiently the sensor nodes consume energy. In this paper, we focus on minimizing the total energy consumed by the sensor nodes whi...
In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the efficiency of data transmission within a limited time is critical, especially for sensors designed with small batteries. In this paper, we design a cooperative transmission scheme with an energy-charging functi...
In classical broadcast models, information is disseminated in synchronous rounds under the constant communication time model, wherein a node may only inform one of its neighbors in each time-unit—also known as the processor-bound model. These m...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have distributed a collection of tiny sensor nodes deployed randomly in the given symmetry environment to sense natural phenomena. The sensed data are disseminated symmetrically to the control station using multi-hop co...
Mobile crowdsensing is considered as a promising technology to exploit the computing and sensing capabilities of the decentralized wireless sensor nodes. Typically, the quality of information obtained from crowdsensing is largely affected by various...
Things receive digital intelligence by being connected to the Internet and by adding sensors. With the use of real-time data and this intelligence, things may communicate with one another autonomously. The environment surrounding us will become more...
An optimized robot path-planning algorithm is required for various aspects of robot movements in applications. The efficacy of the robot path-planning model is vulnerable to the number of search nodes, path cost, and time complexity. The conventional...
During peak hours, the large-scale and spatiotemporal imbalance of passenger flow in subway stations results in passenger crowding, queuing issues, and uneven utilization of facility capacities. These problems not only decrease the overall throughput...
We study the sensor and relay nodes’ power scheduling problem for the remote state estimation in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) with relay nodes over a finite period of time given limited communication energy. We also explain why the optimal i...
The retransmission threshold in wireless sensor networks is critical to the latency of data delivery in the networks. However, existing works on data transmission in sensor networks did not consider the optimization of the retransmission threshold, a...
In order to achieve more effective online monitoring of distribution cables, a deployment scheme of the distribution cable condition monitoring devices based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) has been proposed. The proposed deployment scheme can imp...
In terms of mobile robot path planning, the traditional A* algorithm has the following problems: a long searching time, an excessive number of redundant nodes, and too many path-turning points. As a result, the shortest path obtained from planning ma...
Targeting some problems of the RRT_Connect path planning algorithm, such as average search and low efficiency, proposes an improved RRT_Connect algorithm that may optimize the searched nodes and parts of planned paths. Firstly, an improved RRT_Connec...
In this paper, the optimal working schemes for wireless sensor networks with multiple base stations and wireless energy transfer devices are proposed. The wireless energy transfer devices also work as data gatherers while charging sensor nodes. The w...
This article is concerned with collecting stored sensor data from a static Wireless Sensor Network utilizing a group of mobile robots that act as data mules. In this scenario, the static sensor nodes’ locations are known a priori, and the overa...
In wireless sensor networks, due to the significance of the location information of mobile nodes for many applications, location services are the basis of many application scenarios. However, node state and communication uncertainty affect the distan...
In order to express the energy flow, motion flow, and control flow in wireless rechargeable sensor networks accurately and intuitively, and to maximize the charging benefit of MVs (mobile vehicles), a type of MTS-HACO (Mobile Transition Sequence Hybr...
This paper uses Pareto-optimized frames and injection molding process parameters to optimize the quality of UAV housing parts with multi-objective optimization. Process parameters, such as melt temperature, filling time, pressure, and pressure time,...
We study the scheduling problem for data collection from sensor nodes to the sink node in wireless sensor networks, also referred to as the convergecast problem. The convergecast problem in general network topology has been proven to be NP-hard. In t...
In sustainable smart cities, power saving is a severe challenge in the energy-constrained Internet of Things (IoT). Efficient utilization of limited multiple non-overlap channels and time resources is a promising solution to reduce the network interf...
In complex dynamical networks, pinning control techniques are often applied to control a small fraction of the nodes in order to stabilize the network with reduced control effort and energy, facilitating adequate development of the complex network. S...
Real-time state estimation is defined as the process of calculating the state variable of interest in real time not being directly measured. In a water distribution system (WDS), nodal demands are often considered as the state variable (i.e., unknown...
For the emergency evacuation of cruise ships in case of sudden fire, this research proposes a dynamic route optimization method based on the improved
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) represent an emerging technology, among which coverage optimization remains a fundamental challenge. In specific application scenarios such as intelligent urban management, three-dimensional (3D) coverage models better...
Cooperative communication is an effective method of improving the transmission performance for vehicular ad hoc networks. However, the rapid movement of vehicles leads to frequent changes in network topology and reduces the probability of successful...
The core–periphery structure is one of the key concepts in the structural analysis of complex networks. It consists of a partitioning of the node set of a given graph or network into two groups, called core and periphery, where the core nodes i...
A Critical Adaptive Distributed Embedded System (CADES) is a group of interconnected nodes that must carry out a set of tasks to achieve a common goal, while fulfilling several requirements associated with their critical (e.g., hard real-time require...
Broadcasting is a fundamental information dissemination problem in a connected network where one node, referred to as the originator, must distribute a message to all other nodes through a series of calls along the network’s links. Once informe...
MmWave FANETs play an increasingly important role in the development of UAVs technology. Fast neighbor discovery is a key bottleneck in mmWave FANETs. In this paper, we propose a two-way neighbor discovery algorithm based on a spatial multi-channel t...
Since low-power Wi-Fi sensors are connected to the Internet, effective radio spectrum use is crucial for developing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for Wi-Fi sensor networks. A connectivity-based multipolling mechanism was employed...
In underwater wireless sensor networks, the optimization strategies for localization might be seen as a new boon for the localization of sensor nodes (UWSNs). The techniques for optimization are those that repair the incorrect value, adapt it to the...
The Internet of vehicles (IoV) depicts a reality where ordinary things are connected to vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), allowing them to transmit and collaborate. By placing these regular objects in VANETs and making them available at any time, t...
The increase in the world population has led to new needs for food. Precision Agriculture (PA) is one of the focuses of these policies to optimize the crops and facilitate crop management using technology. Drones have been gaining popularity in PA to...
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