Abstract Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have attracted various academic researchers,
engineers, science, and technology communities. This attraction is due to their broad …

WSN became a key technology for ubiquitous living and remains an active research due to
wide range of applications. Energy awareness is a critical design issue in WSN. Clustering …

Recently, data management and processing for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) has
become a topic of active research in several fields of computer science, such as the …

The past few years have witnessed increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) in applications such as disaster management, combat field …

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs) nodes often operate unattended in a collaborative
manner to perform some tasks. In many applications, the network is deployed in harsh …

The major challenge in designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the support of the
functional, such as data latency, and the non-functional, such as data integrity, requirements …

We study a heterogeneous two-tier wireless sensor network in which N heterogeneous
access points (APs) collect sensing data from densely distributed sensors and then forward …

Sensor nodes spend the most of their limited energy on communicating with environmental
information gathered in receivers. Hence, it is important to determine the optimal monitoring …

The last few years have seen an increased interest in the potential use of wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) in various fields like disaster management, battle field surveillance, and …

In a heterogeneous wireless sensor network (WSN), relay nodes (RNs) are adopted to relay
data packets from sensor nodes (SNs) to the base station (BS). The deployment of the RNs …