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  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,551 Views
22 Pages

19 December 2019

Wireless sensor networks proliferate more and more in all social scopes and sectors. Such networks are implemented in smart homes, smart cities, security systems, medical resources, agriculture, automotive industry, etc. Communication devices and sen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
18,970 Views
28 Pages

9 June 2010

Localization is one of the most fundamental problems in wireless sensor networks, since the locations of the sensor nodes are critical to both network operations and most application level tasks. A GPS-free localization scheme for wireless sensor net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,791 Views
28 Pages

Multi-Channel Distributed Coordinated Function over Single Radio in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Carlene E.-A. Campbell,
  • Kok-Keong Loo,
  • Orhan Gemikonakli,
  • Shafiullah Khan and
  • Dhananjay Singh

17 January 2011

Multi-channel assignments are becoming the solution of choice to improve performance in single radio for wireless networks. Multi-channel allows wireless networks to assign different channels to different nodes in real-time transmission. In this pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,598 Views
19 Pages

21 December 2016

There has been a significant increase in the proliferation and implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in different disciplines, including the monitoring of maritime environments, healthcare systems, and industrial sectors. It has now becom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
7,266 Views
26 Pages

Cooperation among Wirelessly Connected Static and Mobile Sensor Nodes for Surveillance Applications

  • Edison Pignaton De Freitas,
  • Tales Heimfarth,
  • Alexey Vinel,
  • Flávio Rech Wagner,
  • Carlos Eduardo Pereira and
  • Tony Larsson

25 September 2013

This paper presents a bio-inspired networking strategy to support the cooperation between static sensors on the ground and mobile sensors in the air to perform surveillance missions in large areas. The goal of the proposal is to provide low overhead...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,790 Views
25 Pages

A Sensor-Network-Supported Mobile-Agent-Search Strategy for Wilderness Rescue

  • Jason Chong Lee Shin,
  • Zendai Kashino,
  • Goldie Nejat and
  • Beno Benhabib

Mobile target search is a problem pertinent to a variety of applications, including wilderness search and rescue. This paper proposes a hybrid approach for target search utilizing a team of mobile agents supported by a network of static sensors. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,304 Views
28 Pages

Novel High-Precision and High-Robustness Localization Algorithm for Underwater-Environment-Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Junling Ma,
  • Jiangfeng Xian,
  • Huafeng Wu,
  • Yongsheng Yang,
  • Xiaojun Mei,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang,
  • Xinqiang Chen and
  • Chao Zhou

In marine ecological environment monitoring, the acquisition of node location information is crucial, and the absence of location information can render the collected data meaningless. Compared to the rest of the distance-based localization methods,...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,564 Views
11 Pages

3 September 2024

Two dominant driving forces for evolving communication technologies in the current society have been the proliferation of wireless access networks to the Internet and the broadbandization of access and infrastructure networks. Through these evolution...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,267 Views
18 Pages

Joint Acquisition Time Design and Sensor Association for Wireless Sensor Networks in Microgrids

  • Liang Zhong ,
  • Shizhong Zhang ,
  • Yidu Zhang ,
  • Guang Chen  and
  • Yong Liu 

19 November 2021

Wireless sensor networks are used to monitor the operating status of the microgrids, which can effectively improve the stability of power supplies. The topology control is a critical issue of wireless sensor networks, which affects monitoring data tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,053 Views
25 Pages

31 March 2010

Wireless multimedia sensor nodes sense areas that are uncorrelated to the areas covered by radio neighbouring sensors. Thus, node clustering for coordinating multimedia sensing and processing cannot be based on classical sensor clustering algorithms....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,585 Views
13 Pages

25 January 2023

With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) era, a wide array of wireless sensors supporting the IoT have proliferated. As key elements for enabling the IoT, wireless sensor nodes require minimal energy consumption and low device complexity. In p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
13,812 Views
28 Pages

Secure Adaptive Topology Control for Wireless Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks

  • Ching-Tsung Hsueh,
  • Yu-Wei Li,
  • Chih-Yu Wen and
  • Yen-Chieh Ouyang

3 February 2010

This paper presents a secure decentralized clustering algorithm for wireless ad-hoc sensor networks. The algorithm operates without a centralized controller, operates asynchronously, and does not require that the location of the sensors be known a pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,058 Views
20 Pages

29 July 2022

The emergence of battery-free wireless sensor networks (benefiting from the ability to collect energy from the surroundings) has broken through the energy and lifetime limitations of traditional wireless sensor network systems, but also brings challe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,171 Views
18 Pages

7 August 2018

Energy provisioning is always a crucial problem restricting the further development and application of smart industrial wireless sensor networks in smart factories. In this paper, we present that it is necessary to develop smart industrial wireless r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,481 Views
26 Pages

18 November 2016

With the integrated development of the Internet, wireless sensor technology, cloud computing, and mobile Internet, there has been a lot of attention given to research about and applications of the Internet of Things. A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,056 Views
21 Pages

16 November 2021

This paper presents a residual energy estimation-based medium access control (REE-MAC) protocol for wireless powered sensor networks (WPSNs) composed of a central coordinator and multiple sensor devices. REE-MAC aims to reduce overhead due to control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,876 Views
14 Pages

3 March 2014

Distributed sensing, computing and communication capabilities of wireless sensor networks require, in most situations, an efficient node localization procedure. In the case of random deployments in harsh or hostile environments, a general localizatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,024 Views
20 Pages

30 June 2016

A cognitive radio sensor network (CRSN) is a wireless sensor network in which sensor nodes are equipped with cognitive radio. In this paper, we propose an energy-efficient game-theory-based spectrum decision (EGSD) scheme for CRSNs to prolong the net...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,764 Views
13 Pages

Low-Power Low-Cost Wireless Flood Sensor for Smart Home Systems

  • Pedro Teixidó,
  • Juan Antonio Gómez-Galán,
  • Fernando Gómez-Bravo,
  • Trinidad Sánchez-Rodríguez,
  • Javier Alcina and
  • Juan Aponte

7 November 2018

This paper presents the design of a wireless flood sensor to detect the presence of water on home floors, providing early warning of water leaks. A wireless sensor network has been deployed to gather the measurements from the sensor nodes. A control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,504 Views
22 Pages

10 January 2021

In the traditional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) localization algorithm based on the Internet of Things (IoT), the distance vector hop (DV-Hop) localization algorithm has the disadvantages of large deviation and low accuracy in three-dimensional (3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,026 Views
25 Pages

29 April 2020

A large number of rock formations in the Czech Republic and abroad directly threaten to damage objects or traffic along the roads located beneath these formations. For this reason, many such rock formations are stabilized using protective fences or d...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,485 Views
15 Pages

Design and Realization of Seeding Quality Monitoring System for Air-Suction Vibrating Disc Type Seed Meter

  • Junhui Cheng,
  • Yaoming Li,
  • Jin Chen,
  • Yanbin Liu,
  • Kuizhou Ji and
  • Tiaotiao Chen

1 September 2022

To improve the seeding qualification rate and stability of the air-suction vibrating disc type seed meter on the rice seedling raising line, in this paper, an improved wireless sensor network node layout optimization algorithm was proposed, and the o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,372 Views
28 Pages

3 August 2018

This paper deals with the problem of environmental monitoring by designing a cooperative control scheme for mobile sensor networks. The proposed cooperative control scheme includes three main modules: a wireless communication module, a direction deci...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,318 Views
4 Pages

RF Powered Gas Wireless Sensor Node for Smart Applications

  • Alexander M. Baranov,
  • Andrey Somov,
  • Denis Spirjakin,
  • Andrey Bragar and
  • Alexey Karelin

Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) paradigm has been applied to a high number of monitoring and control applications. However, the constraint of WSN energy resources imposes restrictions on its truly ubiquitous and long-term deployments. We address the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,261 Views
26 Pages

7 July 2022

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are the base of the Internet of Things (IoT) that all together give rise to the smart city. These WSNs consist of several sensors, which are densely distributed to observe physical or environmental conditions, like humi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,511 Views
13 Pages

Improving the Deployment of WSNs by Localized Detection of Covered Redundant Nodes in Industry 4.0 Applications

  • Marwa Hussein Hamad Aljubori,
  • Vahid Khalilpour Akram and
  • Moharram Challenger

26 January 2022

Wireless sensor networks can be used as cost-effective monitoring and automation platforms in smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0. Maximizing the covered area and increasing the network lifetime are two challenging tasks in wireless sensor networks....

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,855 Views
16 Pages

8 February 2018

Network lifetime maximization of wireless biomedical implant systems is one of the major research challenges of wireless body area networks (WBANs). In this paper, a mutual information (MI)-based incremental relaying communication protocol is present...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,988 Views
20 Pages

27 February 2021

The problem of localization of nodes of a wireless sensor network placed in different physical media (anchor nodes above ground and sensor nodes underground) is addressed in this article. We use time of arrival of signals transmitted between neighbor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
12,357 Views
22 Pages

Survey on Wireless Technology Trade-Offs for the Industrial Internet of Things

  • Amina Seferagić,
  • Jeroen Famaey,
  • Eli De Poorter and
  • Jeroen Hoebeke

15 January 2020

Aside from vast deployment cost reduction, Industrial Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (IWSAN) introduce a new level of industrial connectivity. Wireless connection of sensors and actuators in industrial environments not only enables wireless mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
12,762 Views
22 Pages

A Wireless Sensor System for Real-Time Monitoring and Fault Detection of Motor Arrays

  • Jonathan Medina-García,
  • Trinidad Sánchez-Rodríguez,
  • Juan Antonio Gómez Galán,
  • Aránzazu Delgado,
  • Fernando Gómez-Bravo and
  • Raúl Jiménez

25 February 2017

This paper presents a wireless fault detection system for industrial motors that combines vibration, motor current and temperature analysis, thus improving the detection of mechanical faults. The design also considers the time of detection and furthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
452 Views
18 Pages

13 December 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are playing an increasingly crucial role in large-scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) due to their high mobility and flexible deployment capabilities. To enhance network sustainability and profitability, this paper p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
234 Citations
28,953 Views
23 Pages

Localization is an important aspect in the field of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that has developed significant research interest among academia and research community. Wireless sensor network is formed by a large number of tiny, low energy, limit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,296 Views
24 Pages

10 December 2024

In recent years, wireless sensor networks have been widely used, especially in three-dimensional environments such as underwater and mountain environments. However, in harsh environments, wireless sensor networks may be damaged and split into many is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,795 Views
13 Pages

A subset of Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) is an emerging technology. WBAN is a collection of tiny pieces of wireless body sensors with small computational capability, communicating short distances using ZigBee or Blueto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,319 Views
17 Pages

Sensor Topology Optimization in Dense IoT Environments by Applying Neural Network Configuration

  • George Papastergiou,
  • Apostolos Xenakis,
  • Costas Chaikalis,
  • Dimitrios Kosmanos,
  • Periklis Chatzimisios and
  • Nicholas S. Samaras

8 June 2023

In dense IoT deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), sensor placement, coverage, connectivity, and energy constraints determine the overall network lifetime. In large-size WSNs, it is difficult to maintain a trade-off among these conflicting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,065 Views
12 Pages

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are implemented in many aspects of daily life, such as Internet of Things applications, industrial automation, and intelligent agriculture. Sensors are typically powered by batteries. Chargers can be used to supply pow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,190 Views
28 Pages

Synchronous Wearable Wireless Body Sensor Network Composed of Autonomous Textile Nodes

  • Peter Vanveerdeghem,
  • Patrick Van Torre,
  • Christiaan Stevens,
  • Jos Knockaert and
  • Hendrik Rogier

9 October 2014

A novel, fully-autonomous, wearable, wireless sensor network is presented, where each flexible textile node performs cooperative synchronous acquisition and distributed event detection. Computationally efficient situational-awareness algorithms are i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
806 Views
24 Pages

High-Degree Connectivity Sensor Networks: Applications in Pastured Cow Herd Monitoring

  • Geunho Lee,
  • Teruyuki Yamane,
  • Kota Okabe,
  • Fumiaki Sugino and
  • Yeunwoong Kyung

12 December 2025

This paper explores the application of mobile sensor networks in cow herds, focusing on the challenge of achieving local communication under minimal computational constraints such as restricted locality, limited memory, and implicit coordination. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
12,079 Views
40 Pages

1 February 2010

This paper proposes a distributed algorithm for establishing connectivity and location estimation in cluster-based wireless sensor networks. The algorithm exploits the information flow while coping with distributed signal processing and the requireme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,211 Views
22 Pages

A Biologically Inspired Self-Organizing Underwater Sensor Network

  • Guannan Li,
  • Yulong Zhang,
  • Yao Zhang,
  • Chao Chen,
  • Zhuoyu Wu and
  • Yang Wang

29 March 2023

Wireless underwater sensor networks have various applications—such as ocean exploration and deep-sea disaster monitoring—making them a hot topic in the research field. To cover a larger area and gather more-precise information, building l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,520 Views
25 Pages

Deterministic Greedy Routing with Guaranteed Delivery in 3D Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Su Xia,
  • Xiaotian Yin,
  • Hongyi Wu,
  • Miao Jin and
  • Xianfeng David Gu

15 May 2014

With both computational complexity and storage space bounded by a small constant, greedy routing is recognized as an appealing approach to support scalable routing in wireless sensor networks. However, significant challenges have been encountered in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,893 Views
28 Pages

Swarm Intelligence Techniques for Mobile Wireless Charging

  • Gerald K. Ijemaru,
  • Kenneth Li-Minn Ang and
  • Jasmine Kah Phooi Seng

This paper proposes energy-efficient swarm intelligence (SI)-based approaches for efficient mobile wireless charging in a distributed large-scale wireless sensor network (LS-WSN). This approach considers the use of special multiple mobile elements, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,984 Views
18 Pages

A Mobility-Assisted Localization Algorithm for Three-Dimensional Large-Scale UWSNs

  • Junhai Luo,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Zhiyan Wang,
  • Yanping Chen and
  • Man Wu

31 July 2020

As one of the important facilities for marine exploration, as well as environment monitoring, access control, and security, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are widely used in related military and civil fields, since the sensor node locali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,948 Views
14 Pages

Algorithmic Coverage Quantification and Visualization in Range-Free Sensor Networks

  • Maria S. Zakynthinaki,
  • Ioannis S. Barbounakis and
  • Emmanuel N. Antonidakis

This study introduces a novel method that addresses the challenge of visualizing and quantifying detection coverage areas in wireless sensor networks. The method involves projecting a network of range-free sensors and pre-existing transmitters, locat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,919 Views
13 Pages

Outdoor Node Localization Using Random Neural Networks for Large-Scale Urban IoT LoRa Networks

  • Winfred Ingabire,
  • Hadi Larijani,
  • Ryan M. Gibson and
  • Ayyaz-UI-Haq Qureshi

23 October 2021

Accurate localization for wireless sensor end devices is critical, particularly for Internet of Things (IoT) location-based applications such as remote healthcare, where there is a need for quick response to emergency or maintenance services. Global...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,835 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2019

According to the IEEE 802.15.6 standard, interference within each wireless body area network (WBAN) can be well addressed by the time division multiple access (TDMA)-based media access control (MAC) protocol. However, the inter-WBAN interference will...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,748 Views
16 Pages

26 November 2023

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered an effective data collection tool. In this paper, we investigate the energy-efficient data collection problem in a UAV-enabled secure WSN without knowing the instantan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,997 Views
26 Pages

22 October 2018

One important way to extend the lifetime of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is to manage the sleep scheduling of sensor nodes after they are deployed. Most of the existing works on node scheduling mainly concentrate on nodes which have only one senso...

  • Review
  • Open Access
45 Citations
7,661 Views
34 Pages

11 June 2015

A wireless body area sensor network (WBASN) consists of a coordinator and multiple sensors to monitor the biological signals and functions of the human body. This exciting area has motivated new research and standardization processes, especially in t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,181 Views
13 Pages

20 February 2024

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) grapple with a challenging and pivotal issue: how to maximize the network’s lifespan. To improve the quality of service (QoS) and extend the life of the network, there has been a lot of effort made in this area i...

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