The reliance on wireless networks has grown tremendously within a number of varied application domains, prompting an evolution towards the use of heterogeneous multihop n[...]

Traditional wireless networks seek to support end-to-end communication through either a single-hop wireless link to infrastructure or multi-hop wireless path to some dest[...]

Recent years have witnessed the emergence and rapid growth of pervasive computing technologies such as mobile ad hoc networks, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-F[...]

Wireless sensor networks are widely used in many application domains in recent years. Data collection is a fundamental function provided by wireless sensor networks. How [...]

As the size and node density of wireless sensor networks (WSN) increase, the energy conservation problem becomes more critical and the conventional methods become inadequ[...]

Sensor nodes and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) enable observation of the physical world in unprecedented levels of granularity. A growing number of environmental monitor[...]

Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have recently emerged to be a cost-effective solution to support large-scale wireless Internet access. They have numerous applications, such[...]