In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised contextsensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. Th...
Energy is the most crucial but scarce resource in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). A wealth of MAC protocols are proposed only to prolong the network lifetime for energy-efficienc...
The amount of information in the new emerging all-embracing pervasive environments will be enormous. Current Internet protocol conceived almost forty years ago, were never planned ...
—Recent years have witnessed the deployments of wireless sensor networks in a class of mission-critical applications such as object detection and tracking. These applications oft...
One way to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks is to reduce the number of packets being transmitted in the network. As sensor networks are usually deployed with a...