Collaborative sensing leverages the cooperation of a collection of sensors to complete a
large-scale sensing task in Internet of Things (IoT). Although some previous studies have …

Wireless charging is a technology of transmitting power through an air gap to electrical
devices for the purpose of energy replenishment. The recent progress in wireless charging …

In last two decades, various monitoring systems have been designed and deployed in urban
environments, toward the realization of the so called smart cities. Such systems are based …

When monitoring spatial phenomena, which can often be modeled as Gaussian processes
(GPs), choosing sensor locations is a fundamental task. There are several common …

Wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs) have emerged as an alternative to solving
the challenges of size and operation time posed by traditional battery-powered systems. In …

Sensor networks, which consist of sensor nodes each capable of sensing environment and
transmitting data, have lots of applications in battlefield surveillance, environmental …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) nodes often operate unattended in a collaborative
manner to perform some tasks. In many applications, the network is deployed in harsh …

The wireless sensor network (WSN) technology spawns a surge of unforeseen applications.
The diversity of these emerging applications represents the great success of this technology …

Network lifetime has become the key characteristic for evaluating sensor networks in an
application-specific way. Especially the availability of nodes, the sensor coverage, and the …

Network lifetime plays an integral role in setting up an efficient wireless sensor network. The
objective of this paper is twofold. The first one is to deploy sensor nodes at optimal locations …