Every year man-made and natural disasters impact the lives of millions of people. The
frequency of occurrence of such disasters is steadily increasing since the last 50 years, and …

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have enormous potential in the public and civil domains.
These are particularly useful in applications, where human lives would otherwise be …

Small drones are being utilized in monitoring, transport, safety and disaster management,
and other domains. Envisioning that drones form autonomous networks incorporated into …

Big data applications have become increasingly popular with the appearance of cloud
computing and green computing. Therefore, internet service providers (ISPs) need to build …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have recently gained the attention of researchers in many
challenging aspects. The most important challenge in these networks is energy …

Studies conducted on resource management in wireless sensor networks have identified
energy efficient routing protocols as one of the energy saving mechanisms that can be used …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) has important applications such as remote environmental
monitoring and target tracking. This has been enabled by the availability, particularly in …

Topology control in a sensor network balances load on sensor nodes and increases network
scalability and lifetime. Clustering sensor nodes is an effective topology control approach …

Wireless sensor networks consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless
communications capabilities. Many routing, power management, and data dissemination …

In the last years, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have gained increasing attention from
both the research community and actual users. As sensor nodes are generally battery …