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 …

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a group of small power-constrained nodes that sense
data and communicate it to the base station (BS). These nodes cover a vast region of …

Our work in this paper stems from our insight that recent research efforts on open vehicle
routing (OVR) problems, an active area in operations research, are based on similar …

Sensor networks are deemed suitable for large-scale deployments in the wild for a variety of
applications. In spite of the remarkable efforts the community put to build the sensor systems …

Motivated by the needs of precise forest inventory and real-time surveillance for ecosystem
management, in this paper we present GreenOrbs [2], a wireless sensor network system and …

The confluence of inexpensive wireless communication, computation, and sensing has
created a new generation of smart devices. Using tens to thousands of these devices in self …

Precision agriculture (PA) is the use of information and communication technology together
with best agricultural practices for farm management. PA requires the acquisition …

Big sensor-based data environment and the emergence of large-scale wireless sensor
networks (LS-WSNs), which are spread over wide geographic areas and contain thousands …

Target tracking systems, consisting of thousands of low-cost sensor nodes, have been used
in many application domains such as battlefield surveillance, wildlife monitoring and border …

In many wireless sensor network (WSN) applications, a subset of nodes (source nodes) are
selected to sense the environment, generate data, and transmit them back to the sink over …