In last two decades, various monitoring systems have been designed and deployed in urban
environments, toward the realization of the so called smart cities. Such systems are based …

Sensor networks, which consist of sensor nodes each capable of sensing environment and
transmitting data, have lots of applications in battlefield surveillance, environmental …

The major challenge in designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the support of the
functional, such as data latency, and the non-functional, such as data integrity, requirements …

A critical aspect of applications with wireless sensor networks is network lifetime. Power-
constrained wireless sensor networks are usable as long as they can communicate sensed …

As the field of communications networks continues to evolve, the challenging area of
wireless sensor networks is rapidly coming of age. Recent advances have made it possible …

Wireless sensor networks constitute the platform of a broad range of applications related to
national security, surveillance, military, health care, and environmental monitoring. The …

When monitoring spatial phenomena with wireless sensor networks, selecting the best
sensor placements is a fundamental task. Not only should the sensors be informative, but …

Observing mobile or static targets in the ground using flying drones is a common task for
civilian and military applications. We introduce the minimum cost drone location problem …

Recent improvements in affordable and efficient integrated electronic devices have a
considerable impact on advancing the state of wireless sensor networks, which constitute …

Sensor deployment is a critical issue since it reflects the cost and detection capability of a
wireless sensor network. Although lots of work has addressed this issue, most of them …