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Industrial environments are typically characterised by high levels of interference. Therefore, standards for industrial wireless sensor networks (WirelessHART, ISA 100.11a, and IEEE 802.15.4e) have defined a time division and multichannel-based mode of operation, in which time slots and channel pairs are assigned to links representing communication between nodes. In IEEE 802.15.4e this mode of operation...
In most of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications, energy-efficiency and low end-to-end transmission delay (E2ETD) are essential requirements. This paper presents a contention based routing enhanced MAC protocol, named as CR-MAC, for E2ETD reduction in a multi-hop WSN. CR-MAC reduces E2ETD by optimizing the time interval between the successively sent data packets of a node in a scheduled flow...
Energy is the most limiting factor for remote outdoor deployments of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). This paper proposes a novel routing algorithm for dual-platform nodes targeting WSN applications as found in smart farming applications. For scenarios in which high power components of nodes and radio links will be switched on at known points in time, our algorithm tries to make use of scheduled uptimes...
Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) networks are emerging as a promising technology for the Internet of Things and the Industry 4.0 where ease of deployment, reliability, short latency, flexibility and adaptivity are required. Our goal is to improve reliability of data gathering in such wireless sensor networks. We present three redundancy patterns to build a reliable path from a source to a destination...
In mobile wireless sensor networks (MWSNs), each sensor has the ability not only to sense and transmit data but also to move to some specific location. Because the movement of sensors consumes much more power than that in sensing and communication, the problem of scheduling mobile sensors to cover all targets and maintain network connectivity such that the total movement distance of mobile sensors...
Recent breakthroughs in wireless energy transfer-based rechargeable batteries enable a promising application of Wireless Charging Vehicles (WCVs) in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Networks (WRSNs). This paper studies cooperative WCV schedules in WRSNs to optimize sensor recharging. The objective is to minimize the number of WCVs under the constraint that all sensors must be periodically recharged before...
Industrial applications demand for ease of deployment, reliability and low-power in wireless networks, leading to standards like IEEE802.15.4, which include time synchronized channel hopping mechanisms. Yet, scheduling of transmissions on timeslots and channels falls outside the scope of current standards. Given the application requirements above, distributed (rather than centralized) scheduling has...
We consider the scheduling problem for Aggregated ConvergeCast in wireless sensor networks with a physical interference model. Previous work consists of either heuristics without performance guarantees, or approximation algorithms which do not perform well in practice. We propose here a first scalable mathematical SINR (Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratio) model that outputs an optimal Aggregated...
A nodes scheduling method applying for high density and large-scale WSN is put forward by using probabilistic coverage sensing model in this paper-that is the Distributed Probabilistic Coverage Sets Configuration Method (DPCS). In this method, the nodes with dense distribution are divided into several non-overlapping coverage sets by adopting distributed self-organization method. In the process of...
The recent advances in wireless energy transfer technology provide a promising way to solve the problem of limited battery capacity of sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks. Adoption of mobile charger in the wireless rechargeable sensor networks (WRSNs) makes it easier to charge sensor nodes rather than charging with energy harvesting schemes. However, many existing energy replenishment schemes...
Energy consumption problem is considered an extremely important problem that faces the Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). For this reason, a lot of efficient energy protocols have been developed in order to reduce the energy consumption, as well as to prolong the lifetime of the sensor networks. The DMHT-LEACH protocol is one of these protocols. It proposes a dynamic technique for facilitating the data...
The WiseSkin project aims at creating artificial skin that allows human patients with prosthetic limbs to regain their sense of touch. The system in charge of transferring the tactile information is based on a wireless sensor network with stringent adaptability, latency, energy and rehability constraints. This paper proposes a communication protocol aimed at enabling the WiseSkin wireless sensor network...
Tree is a widely used topology for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). As Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) eliminates collisions, it is a preferred channel access mechanism. Often multiple sinks are deployed in WSNs. Use of multiple sinks provides fault tolerance and load balancing. In tree based networks, every sink becomes root of exactly one tree. When node deployment is not uniform across the...
Nowadays, the problem of using minimum number of time slots for data aggregation such that sensors can work without data collision for data transmissions has received a great deal of attention in Wireless Sensor Network (WRSN). It is worth mentioning that there exists many approaches that are tried to reduce the number of time slots for data aggregation in WSNs. However, most of previous works are...
Recently, the problem of using efficient the number of mobile devices starting from multi-sink to go to charge and collect data of sensors such that sensors can work forever has received a great deal of attention in Wireless Rechargeable Sensor Network (WRSN). Many methods have been proposed for the WRSN systems such that mobile device can charge and collect data from sensors. However, most of previous...
Supporting real-time applications over wireless networks is challenging for several reasons. The medium access control (MAC) layer has a key role in enabling real-time guarantees by providing bounded access time to the transmission medium. Unfortunately, even when timely access is granted, transmissions can still be compromised, specially in the wireless domain, due to the unreliable transmission...
Source location privacy (SLP) is an important property for the class of asset monitoring problems in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). SLP aims to prevent an attacker from finding a valuable asset when a WSN node is broadcasting information due to the detection of the asset. Most SLP techniques focus at the routing level, with typically high message overhead. The objective of this paper is to investigate...
Data aggregation is an essential operation for the sink to obtain summary information in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). The problem of Minimum Latency Aggregation Schedule (MLAS) which seeks a fastest and collision-free aggregation schedule has been well studied when nodes are always awake. However, in duty-cycle WSNs, nodes can only receive data in active state. In such networks, it is of great...
Safety and security in marine environments is an emerging application area of low-power wireless sensor networks. Yet, these environments pose big challenges to network reliability. The IEEE802.15.4-TSCH protocol has been extensively regarded as a reliable low-power wireless sensor network solution. It requires, though, an external scheduling mechanism in place to allocate connections to specific...
Internet of Things (IoT) in a real world scenario involves collecting data by sensor devices and communicating the sensed data, through gateway devices, to the IoT Cloud (or the Internet) using direct or multi-hop communication. A gateway typically supports multiple wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and each WSN might use a different technology for communication. Hence gateways are designed to be heterogeneous,...
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