A fundamental issue in the design of a wireless sensor network is to devise mechanisms to make efficient use of its energy, and thus, extend its lifetime. The information about th...
Raquel A. F. Mini, Antonio Alfredo Ferreira Lourei...
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are subject to significant resource constraints. Particularly, routing protocols for lowrate WSNs suffer from maintaining routing metrics and sta...
—The IEEE 802.15.4 standard was developed for the purpose of media access control of low power wireless personal area networks. Wireless sensor network devices have the general c...
En-route data compression is fundamental to reduce the power consumed for data gathering in sensor networks. Typical in-network compression schemes involve the distributed computat...
In the area of wireless sensor networks, achieving minimum energy consumption is a very important research issue. A number of energy efficient protocols have been proposed, mostly ...