The adoption of wireless sensor networks by applications that require complex operations,
ranging from health care to industrial monitoring, has brought forward a new challenge of …

With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is necessary to define service models,
which can categorize IoT applications and determine the Quality of Service (QoS) factors …

Multimedia delivery support has recently been added to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
and has led to increased interest in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSN). WMSNs …

In mobile ad hoc networks connectivity is always an issue of concern. Due to dynamism in
the behavior of mobile nodes, efficiency shall be achieved only with the assumption of good …

Cyber‐Physical Systems (CPS) that collect, exchange, manage information, and coordinate
actions are an integral part of the Smart Grid. In addition, Quality of Service (QoS) …

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major aspects in designing,
implementing, and deploying wireless sensor networks by discussing present research on …

New emerging applications for wireless sensor networks, such as mission-critical and
multimedia applications, require sensing heterogeneous phenomena, and that the network …

We propose a quality-aware media access control (MAC) protocol for real-time voice
delivery in cognitive radio-(CR-) enabled wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The temporal …

The availability of small, low-cost, battery operated devices capable of sensing, performing
simple processing and transmitting data via wireless communications have the potential to …

Considering traditional MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks cannot provide service
differentiation for different traffic classes, we propose a Self-adaption QoS-aware MAC …