High transmission reliability, energy efficiency, and long lifetime are pivotal issues for
wireless body area networks (WBANs). However, these performance metrics are not …

Bayesian network (BN) is a powerful tool for human reliability analysis (HRA) as it can
characterize the dependency among different human performance shaping factors (PSFs) …

A wireless sensor network (WSN)(singular and plural of acronyms are spelled the same) is a
distributed system composed of autonomous sensor nodes wireless connected and …

A wireless body area sensor network (WBASN) consists of a coordinator and multiple
sensors to monitor the biological signals and functions of the human body. This exciting area …

Over the past decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of potential application domainsfor
wireless sensor networks (WSN). A comprehensive number of new services such …

Maintenance is an important activity in industry. It is performed either to revive a
machine/component or to prevent it from breaking down. Different strategies have evolved …

Abstract Linear Wireless Sensor Networks (LWSNs) are the most suitable wireless sensor
networks (WSNs) for monitoring the condition of infrastructures with linear typologies, eg …

This paper presents a survey on existing reliability models in wireless sensor networks
(WSNs). Most of the existing mechanisms employ retransmissions, ignoring redundancy …

Computing system reliability is a classical engineering reliability problem and was modeled
using different computational approaches for many years. For systems which include a large …

Advances in electronic integration and radio communication have led to the emergence of a
new kind of safety systems, ie Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). This network-based safety …