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 …

In this survey a new application paradigm life and safety for critical operations and missions
using wearable Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) technology is introduced. This …

In this paper, we propose a wireless sensor network (WSN) designed for monitoring and risk
management of landslides, where data collected by sensors are delivered through the …

Today is the era of super-connectivity, where real-world things connect, gather real-time
data from their surroundings and disseminate the recorded data into the environment. The …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) provide a powerful combination of distributed sensing,
computing and wireless communication that can be useful in various applications …

A wireless body area sensor network (WBASN) demands ultra low power and energy
efficient protocols. Medium access control (MAC) layer plays a pivotal role for energy …

IEEE 802.15. 6 is a wireless body area network (WBAN) standard proposed to facilitate the
exponentially growing interest in the field of health monitoring. This standard is flexible and …

To overcome the limited energy in battery-powered wireless sensor networks (WSNs),
harvested energy is considered as a potential solution to achieve autonomous systems. A …

This paper presents a heuristic-based approach to self-adapt and reconfigures the wake-up
schedule of the nodes in wireless body area networks (WBANs). A latency-energy-optimized …

To extend the system lifetime of WSN, energy harvesting techniques have been considered
as potential solutions for long-term operations. Instead of minimizing the consumed energy …