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Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks

  1. Due to the inefficiency of a flat topology, most wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have a cluster or tree structure; but this causes an imbalance of residual energy between nodes, which gets worse over time as n...

    Authors: Ikjune Yoon, Dong Kun Noh and Heonshik Shin
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:164
  2. Three-dimensional (3D) wireless sensor networks have attracted a lot of attention due to their great potential usages in both commercial and civilian applications, such as environmental data collection, pollut...

    Authors: Fan Li, Zeming Chen and Yu Wang
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:157
  3. Multi-radio multi-channel (MRMC) wireless mesh networks (WMNs) achieve higher throughput using multiple simultaneous transmissions and receptions. However, due to limited number of non-overlapping channels, su...

    Authors: Aizaz U. Chaudhry, Nazia Ahmad and Roshdy H M Hafez
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:155
  4. In this article, we propose a low-complexity joint power allocation and route planning algorithm for multiple antennas wireless sensor networks using dynamic programming. The sensor nodes utilize orthogonal sp...

    Authors: Jianjun Wu, Shubo Ren, Yun Jiang and Lingyang Song
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:125
  5. Routing and topology control for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is significantly important to achieve energy efficiency in resource-constrained WSNs, and high-speed packet delivery. In this article, we introd...

    Authors: Lutful Karim, Tarek El Salti, Nidal Nasser and Qusay H Mahmoud
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:120
  6. In wireless sensor network, a connected dominating set (CDS) can be used as a virtual backbone for efficient routing. Constructing a minimal CDS (MCDS) is good for packet routing and energy efficiency, but is ...

    Authors: Qiang Tang, Kun Yang, Ping Li, Jianming Zhang, Yuansheng Luo and Bing Xiong
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:83
  7. In intermittently connected mobile ad hoc networks, how to guarantee the packet delivery ratio and reduce the transmission delay has become the new challenge for the researchers. Epidemic theory based routing ...

    Authors: Xin Guan, Min Chen and Tomoaki Ohtsuki
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:76
  8. One of the key factors in distributed sensor networks is their reliability in packets delivery even in the event of failure of one or a few nodes. Another factor--often underestimated--is the intra-network int...

    Authors: Kamil Staniec and Grzegorz Debita
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:56
  9. Minimizing the energy consumption of battery-powered sensors is an essential consideration in sensor network applications, and sleep/wake scheduling mechanism has been proved to an efficient approach to handli...

    Authors: Guofang Nan, Guanxiong Shi, Zhifei Mao and Minqiang Li
    Citation: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2012 2012:44