Smart Grid is designed to integrate advanced communication/networking technologies into
electrical power grids to make them “smarter”. Current situation is that most of the blackouts …

Wireless process control has been a popular topic recently in the field of industrial control. In
the industrial field, wireless technologies are considered despite the lack of an ideal …

Wireless Personal Area Networks provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15. 4
standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including …

Sensor networks are adopted in many surveillance applications. A traditional method for
such applications is to deploy sensor nodes all over the surveillance region in order to cover …

A wireless sensor network (WSN) has features that fit into several classes of wireless
networks (eg, mesh, ad hoc, and mobile ad hoc networks) and, at the same time, features …

In this work, we will illustrate our attempt to exploit log files that are recorded locally on each
node in a distributed system or a wired/wireless network. In order to improve the efficiency of …

Accountability implies that any entity shall be held responsible for its own specific actions
and behaviour, so that the entity is part of a larger chain of accountability. PeerReview …

In social groups, complex group behavior often emerges from the local interaction among
simple individuals. Throughout this study, we assume that individuals can access …

ZigBee is a fairly new but promising wireless sensor network standard that offers the
advantages of simple and low resource communication. Nevertheless, security is of great …

Neighbour discovery is a process that new devices gather the information from their
neighbours when they initially join in a wireless sensor network. During this process, energy …