The paradigm of sensors organized in a multi-hop wireless network has been recognized as a cost effective way to satisfy the real-time sensing and communication needs of a smart grid. For wireless sensor networks, one of ...

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is composed of tiny autonomous sensors with limited battery power. WSNs are employed to observe specific fields of interest. In this paper, we study the energy efficient and reliable network ...

In a typical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application, the basic communication service is the transportation of the data collected from sensors to the base station. For prolonging the network lifetime, energy efficiency ...

Transmission power control has paramount importance in the design of energy-efficient wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In this paper, we systematically explore the effects of various transmission power control strategies ...

Having a direct effect on network lifetime, balanced energy consumption is one of the key challenges in wireless networks. In this paper, we investigate the effects of node mobility on energy balancing in wireless networks. ...

The success of widespread deployment and associated research efforts on wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is undisputed. Yet, there is still a large uncharted territory for exploring and improving many aspects of WSNs. As ...

Maximization of network lifetime through the efficient utilization of energy is one of the main objectives in wireless sensor network (WSN) design. Although energy balancing throughout the network for relaying the data ...

Route diversity improves the security of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) against adversaries attempting to obtain sensitive sensor data By limiting the fraction of data relayed over each link and/or routed through each ...