Wireless body area sensor networks (WBASNs) have received growing attention from
industry and academia due to their exceptional potential for patient monitoring systems that …

Higher layer applications, such as routing protocols and robot navigation systems,
commonly depend upon link quality (LQ) estimates for improving the efficiency and reliability …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is attracting considerable attention from the universities,
industries, citizens and governments for applications, such as healthcare, environmental …

As an integral part of reliable communication in wireless networks, effective link estimation is
essential for routing protocols. However, due to the dynamic nature of wireless channels …

Radio link quality estimation is essential for protocols and mechanisms such as routing,
mobility management and localization, particularly for low-power wireless networks such as …

The smart grid will play an important role in the future city to support the diversified energy
supply. Wireless communication, the most cost-effective alternative to the traditional wire …

In the application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to smart grid, real-time and accurate
wireless link quality prediction (LQP) is important to determine which link is reliable enough …

Wireless community networks (WCNs) are large, heterogeneous, dynamic, and
decentralized networks. Such complex characteristics raise different challenges, such as the …

Accurate link quality predictions are key in community wireless mesh networks (CWMNs) to
improve the performance of routing protocols. Unlike other techniques, online machine …

The goal of the thesis is to investigate the issues related to the temporal link quality variation
in large scale WSN environments, to design energy efficient link quality estimators able to …