The advancements in information and communication technology in the past decades have
been converging into a new communication paradigm in which everything is expected to be …

Emerging applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require real-time quality-of-
service (QoS) guarantees to be provided by the network. Due to the nondeterministic …

Node deployment is a fundamental issue to be solved in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).
A proper node deployment scheme can reduce the complexity of problems in WSNs as, for …

Before re-engineering a large and complex software system, it is wise to study its change
history in order to identify the most valuable and problematic parts. Unfortunately, typical …

Networks for safety-critical operation must guarantee deterministic bounds on the end-to-
end delay of data transmission despite the usually many data flows that all share the …

Modeling the fundamental performance limits of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is of
paramount importance to understand their behavior under the worst-case conditions and to …

In this paper, we show how Network Calculus can be used to determine whether a switched
network may satisfy the time constraints of a real-time application. If switched architecture …

Sensor Network Calculus (SensorNC) provides a framework for worst-case analysis of
wireless sensor networks. The analysis proceeds in two steps: For a given flow,(1) the …

Messages traversing a network commonly experience waiting times due to sharing the
forwarding resources. During those times, the crossed systems must provide sufficient buffer …

Modelling the fundamental performance limits of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is of
paramount importance to understand the behaviour of WSN under worst case conditions …