As an effective distributed renewable energy utilization paradigm, a microgrid is expected to
realize the high integration of the industrial cyber-physical systems (CPS), which has …

Extensive deployment of heterogeneous small cells in cellular networks results in ultra-
dense small-cell networks (USNs). The USNs have been established as one of the vital …

Abstract Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols for wireless decentralized networks in IoT
have attracted a lot of attention in both academic and industrial fields. They aim to …

With the proliferation of affordable VTOL drones, application domain of aerial swarms
expands everyday, spanning from public drone art to offensive military operations …

Time division multiple access (TDMA) based medium access control (MAC) schemes are
widely used for communication among directional nodes since they can provide a conflict …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of many self organized sensor nodes to monitor
various activities like temperature, pressure, health condition, intrusion detection, etc. These …

One of the major challenges in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the mitigation of
collisions due to simultaneous transmissions by multiple nodes over a common channel …

As a contention‐free channel access protocol, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) is
widely applied in Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks (EH‐WSNs) due to ease of …

Multicast in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is an efficient way to deliver the same data to
multiple sensor nodes. Reliable multicast in WSNs is desirable for critical tasks like code …

Most Internet of Things (IoT) systems are based on the wireless sensor network (WSN) due
to the reduction of the cable layout cost. However, the battery life of nodes is a key issue …