Studies conducted on resource management in wireless sensor networks have identified
energy efficient routing protocols as one of the energy saving mechanisms that can be used …

Advances in hardware manufacturing technology, wireless communications, micro electro-
mechanical devices and information processing technologies enabled the development of …

Due to a battery constraint in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), prolonging their lifetime is
important. Energy-efficient routing techniques for WSNs play a great role in doing so. In this …

Airborne relaying can extend wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to remote human-unfriendly
terrains. However, lossy airborne channels and limited battery of unmanned aerial vehicles …

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 …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely applied in various industrial
applications, which involve collecting a massive amount of heterogeneous sensory data …

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 sensor networks (WSNs) provide a virtual layer where the information about the
physical world can be accessed by computational systems. Mobile robots have long been …

In this paper, we study the deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to collect data
from IoT devices, by finding a data collection tour for each UAV. To ensure the 'freshness' of …

Wireless sensor networks are composed of a large number of disposable wireless sensors
that collect information about their surrounding environment and transmit them to the end …