The collaborative and low-cost nature of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) brings significant
advantages over traditional communication technologies used in today's electric power …

Jamming represents the most serious security threat in the field of wireless sensor networks
(WSNs), as it can easily put out of order even WSNs that utilize strong highlayer security …

Radio link quality estimation in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has a fundamental impact
on the network performance and also affects the design of higher-layer protocols. Therefore …

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

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 …

Smart grid is an intelligent power generation, distribution, and control system. ZigBee, as a
wireless mesh networking scheme low in cost, power, data rate, and complexity, is ideal for …

In this paper, we propose a new data-gathering mechanism for large-scale wireless sensor
networks by introducing mobility into the network. A mobile data collector, for convenience …

This paper demonstrates how to use multiple channels to improve communication
performance in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We first investigate multi-channel …

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 …

Multi-frequency media access control has been well understood in general wireless ad hoc
networks, while in wireless sensor networks, researchers still focus on single frequency …