Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are growing rapidly in various fields of commerce,
medicine, industrial, agriculture, research, meteorology, etc. that eases complicated tasks …

In socially aware networking, nodes typically behave selfishly due to resource constraints
and social correlations, resulting in low network performance. To incentivize selfish nodes to …

Barrier coverage of wireless sensor networks is an important issue in the detection of
intruders who are attempting to cross a region of interest. However, in certain applications …

In rechargeable sensor networks (RSNs), energy harvested by sensors should be carefully
allocated for data sensing and data transmission to optimize data gathering due to time …

Recent years have witnessed several new promising technologies to power wireless sensor
networks, which motivate some key topics to be revisited. By integrating sensing and …

We study the problem of minimum-number full-view area coverage in camera sensor
networks, ie, how to select the minimum number of camera sensors to guarantee the full …

Millions of sensors are deployed to monitor the smart grid. They consume huge amounts of
energy in the communication infrastructure. Therefore, the establishment of an energy …

Mobile crowdsensing has shown elegant capacity in data collection and has given rise to
numerous applications. In the sense of coverage quality, marginal works have considered …

Socially aware networking (SAN) is a new communication paradigm, in which the social
characteristics of mobile nodes are exploited to improve the performance of data distribution …

For various applications, sensors are deployed to monitor belt regions to guarantee that
every movement crossing a barrier of sensors will be detected in real-time with high …