Initial deployments of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) were based on a many-to-one communication paradigm, where a single sink collects data from a number of data sources. Recently...
Pietro Ciciriello, Luca Mottola, Gian Pietro Picco
— Future application areas of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) may include industrial process automation, aircraft control systems or patient monitoring in hospitals. Such applica...
: Wireless sensor/actuator networks (WSANs) are emerging as a new generation of sensor networks. Serving as the backbone of control applications, WSANs will enable an unprecedented...
—In-network aggregation has become a promising technique for improving the energy efficiency of wireless sensor networks. Aggregating data at various nodes in the network result...
Abstract. Due to the large-scale ad hoc deployments and wireless interference, data aggregation is a fundamental but time consuming task in wireless sensor networks. This paper foc...