A wireless sensor network (WSN) has important applications such as remote environmental
monitoring and target tracking. This has been enabled by the availability, particularly in …

In this paper we discuss a selection of promising and interesting research areas in the
design of protocols and systems for wireless industrial communications. We have selected …

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) consist of mesh routers and mesh clients, where mesh
routers have minimal mobility and form the backbone of WMNs. They provide network …

Ensuring energy efficient and reliable transport of data in resource constrained Wireless
Sensor Networks (WSNs) is one of the primary concerns to achieve a high degree of …

Dynamic spectrum access stands as a promising and spectrum-efficient communication
approach for resource-constrained multihop wireless sensor networks due to their event …

Wireless sensor networks are resource-constrained self-organizing systems that are often
deployed in inaccessible and inhospitable environments in order to collect data about some …

A wireless sensor network with multimedia capabilities typically consists of data sensor
nodes, which sense, for instance, sound or motion, and video sensor nodes, which capture …

In this article we present a survey of transport protocols for wireless sensor networks
(WSNs). We first highlight several unique aspects of WSNs, and describe the basic design …

Utility companies (electricity, gas, and water suppliers), governments, and researchers have
been urging to deploy communication-based systems to read meters, known as automatic …

Pervasive mobile and low-end wireless technologies, such as radio-frequency identification
(RFID), wireless sensor networks and the impending vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs) …