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 …

Composite materials owing to low density and beneficial properties such as high stiffness,
low coefficient of thermal expansion, high mechanical strength, high dimensional stability …

Motivated by the needs of precise carbon emission measurement and real-time surveillance
for CO 2 management in cities, we present CitySee, a real-time CO 2-monitoring system …

Nowadays energy crisis and global warming problems are hanging over everyone's head,
urging much research work on energy saving. In the ICT industry, which is becoming a major …

In this correspondence, we consider the problem of constructing an erasure code for storage
over a network when the data sources are distributed. Specifically, we assume that there are …

The rapid progress of wireless communication and embedded microsensing MEMS
technologies has made wireless sensor networks possible. In light of storage in sensors, a …

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 …

Wireless sensor network technology has the potential to reveal finegrained, dynamic
changes in monitored variables of an outdoor landscape. But there are significant problems …

To ensure sustainable operations of wireless sensor systems, environmental energy
harvesting has been regarded as the right solution for long-term applications. In energy …

Software-intensive systems become more and more important in our everyday lives. But
their increasing complexity makes it difficult to develop and maintain them. This chapter …