The vision of wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) is to provide real-time
multimedia applications using wireless sensors deployed for long-term usage. Quality of …

The recent technological advances in micro electro-mechanical systems have promoted the
development of a powerful class of sensor-based distributed intelligent systems capable of …

Extensive empirical studies presented in this article confirm that the quality of radio
communication between low-power sensor devices varies significantly with time and …

Energy is a very scarce resource in Wireless Sensor Networks. While most of the current
proposals focus on minimizing the global energy consumption, we aim here at designing an …

Distinguishing subtle differences in attributes is valuable, yet learning to make visual
comparisons remains nontrivial. Not only is the number of possible comparisons quadratic in …

Recent research shows that significant energy saving can be achieved in wireless sensor
networks with a mobile base station that collects data from sensor nodes via short-range …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are a collection of several small and inexpensive battery-
powered nodes, commonly used to monitor regions of interests and to collect data from the …

Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) constitute a subset of Wireless Sensor Networks
(WSNs) responsible for monitoring vital sign-related data of patients and accordingly route …

Recent study reveals that great benefit can be achieved for data gathering in wireless
sensor networks by employing mobile collectors that gather data via short-range …

This paper investigates the opportunities and challenges in the use of dynamic radio
transmit power control for prolonging the lifetime of body-wearable sensor devices used in …