In recent years, industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) have emerged as an important
research theme with applications spanning a wide range of industries including automation …

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have become a leading solution in many important
applications such as intrusion detection, target tracking, industrial automation, smart building …

The recent technological advances in micro electro-mechanical systems have promoted the
development of a powerful class of sensor-based distributed intelligent systems capable of …

Several studies have highlighted that the IEEE 802.15. 4 standard presents a number of
limitations such as low reliability, unbounded packet delays and no protection against …

Composite structures may be subjected to internal damages caused by impact events, which
can seriously degrade the property of the structures. Hence, impact monitoring is of great …

Artificial Intelligence-based Quorum systems are used to solve the energy crisis in real-time
wireless sensor networks. They tend to improve the coverage, connectivity, latency, and …

The ability of newer generations of commercially available radios used on the sensor nodes
to tune their operating frequency over different channels provides an opportunity to alleviate …

One of the major problems in wireless multihop networks is the scheduling of transmissions
in a fair and efficient manner. Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) seems to be one of the …

Using low duty-cycle is the most common technique to extend the system lifetime in WSNs.
However, it also implies limited throughput and long delay and the penalty is even higher …

An open issue still to be addressed in low‐power lossy networks (LLNs) is how the
application requirements, the available transport services, the network layer routes, and the …