—The overlay-based network architecture has been recognized as an effective way to deal with the funneling effect in sensor networks, where sensors closer to the sink are usually...
A large number of practical sensing and actuating applications require immediate notification of rare but urgent events and also fast delivery of time sensitive actuation command...
Power management is an important technique to prolong the lifetime of battery-powered wireless ad hoc networks. The fact that the energy consumed in the idle state dominates the t...