Although the term'non-functional requirement'has been in use for more than 20 years, there
is still no consensus in the requirements engineering community what non-functional …

In wireless environments, transmission and reception costs dominate system power
consumption, motivating research effort on new technologies capable of reducing the …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging computing concept that describes a structure in
which everyday physical objects, each provided with unique identifiers, are connected to the …

Health monitoring systems based on Internet-of-things (IoT) have been recently introduced
to improve the quality of health care services. However, the number of advanced IoT-based …

Duty-cycled Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols certainly improve the energy efficiency
of wireless networks. However, most of these protocols still suffer from severe degrees of …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have received significant attention in recent years and
have found a wide range of applications, including structural and environmental monitoring …

Emerging wake-up radio technologies have the potential to bring the performance of
sensing systems and of the Internet of Things to the levels of low latency and very low …

The use of a low-power wake-up radio in wireless sensor networks is considered in this
paper, where relevant medium access control solutions are studied. A variety of …

Wearable technology is gaining popularity, with people wearing everything “smart” from
clothing to glasses and watches. Present-day wearables are typically battery-powered, and …

Wake-up radio is a promising approach to mitigate the problem of idle listening, which incurs
additional power consumption for the Internet of Things (IoT) wireless transmission. Radio …