The term “Internet-of-Things” is used as an umbrella keyword for covering various aspects
related to the extension of the Internet and the Web into the physical realm, by means of the …

The role of smart farming by gathering information on productive crop management has
been addressed. Current advances in data management for smart farming acquired using …

Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for
Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless …

The wireless medium being inherently broadcast in nature and hence prone to interferences
requires highly optimized medium access control (MAC) protocols. This holds particularly …

Energy is a critical resource in sensor networks. MAC protocols such as S-MAC and T-MAC
coordinate sleep schedules to reduce energy consumption. Recently, lowpower listening …

Wireless sensor networks promise an unprecedented fine-grained interface between the
virtual and physical worlds. They are one of the most rapidly develo** information …

The increasing demand for real-time applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has
made the Quality of Service (QoS) based communication protocols an interesting and hot …

We propose a novel adaptive MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks. In existing
protocols such as SMAC, the sensor nodes are put to sleep periodically to save energy. As …

A comprehensive analysis on the energy-efficient strategy in static Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSNs) that are not equipped with any energy harvesting modules is conducted in …

In traditional wireless sensor network (WSN) applications, energy efficiency may be
considered to be the most important concern whereas utilizing bandwidth and maximizing …