In a realistic sensor network, in particular with a nonuniform deployment, sensor nodes inevitably have varying workloads. This causes a natural problem that some sensor nodes are...
The explosive and robust growth of the Internet owes a lot to the ”end-to-end principle”, which pushes stateful operations to the end-points. The Internet grew both in traffic...
—Different types of power-saving techniques have been proposed in various fields to alleviate the limitation on the battery lifetime for the mobile stations (MSs). In order to p...
—Advances in microsensor and radio technology will enable small but smart sensors to be deployed for a wide range of environmental monitoring applications. The low per-node cost ...
Energy efficiency is one of the most critical issues in the design of wireless sensor networks. Observing that many sensor applications for object tracking can tolerate a certain d...