... Purpose – Energy consumption has always been the most serious issue to consider while deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Sensor nodes are limited in power, computational capacities and memory so reporting the occurrence of specific events, such as fire or flooding, as quickly...

...Hajar Mousannif; Hassan Al Moatassime; Said Rakrak Purpose Energy consumption has always been the most serious issue to consider while deploying wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Sensor nodes are limited in power, computational capacities and memory so reporting the occurrence of specific events...

...Xinwen Fu; Jinhua Guo; Jiannong Cao; Chao Sha; Ruchuan Wang; Haiping Huang; Lijuan Sun Purpose Energy consumption is a fundamental concern in wireless multimedia sensor networks, even more than that in traditional wireless sensor networks. In fact, sensors are battery‐constrained devices, while...

... file beaming service over wireless LAN as that provided by Palm PDAs over infrared links. On the application sharing front, WShare supports a general remote execution mechanism that can synchronize the state of multiple instances of a standard productivity application, such as PowerPoint, Excel...

... broadcast messages, nodes recalculate their new EAC and reset their priorities until they prune their broadcasts. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Computer networks Wireless Algorithmic languages The rapid advance of wireless communication technology...

...Jianjun Yang; Zongming Fei Purpose Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) have evolved quickly during the last several years. They are widely used in a lot of fields. Channel allocation provides basic means to guarantee mesh networks’ good performance such as efficient routing. The purpose of this paper...

...Fulvio Babich; Massimiliano Comisso; Lucio Manià Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the low‐cost switched‐beam antennas and the more expensive adaptive antennas in a wireless mesh network (WMN) scenario. Design/methodology/approach A mathematical framework is adopted in order...

... modulation at carrier frequency f₀. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Telecommunication networks Wireless Video Sensors Wireless ad hoc networks are characterized by flexibility of application and deployment, supporting both single‐ and multi‐hop...

... for the study of time division multiple access (TDMA)‐based multi‐channel wireless mesh networks. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Wireless Telecommunication networks Programming and algorithm theory Communication technologies WiMax (world interoperability for microwave access...

... of hops and the standard deviation of recently measured round‐trip times to address the TCP unfairness. Findings Simulation results show that the proposed techniques provide even throughput by providing TCP fairness as the number of hops increases over a wireless mesh network (WMN). Research...

... The wireless mesh network (WMN) is experiencing tremendous growth with the standardization of IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 technologies. Compared to its wired counterpart, the resource of the WMN is limited. Worst yet, the wireless link quality is time and space varying, depending on the environment...

...Evi Syukur; Javier García‐Villalba; Abraham George; Anup Kumar; S. Srinivasan Purpose Mobility management for single‐hop cellular networks has received much research attention in the last few years. One of the research challenges for 4G wireless systems is the design of mobility management...

...Jean‐Marc Pierson; Robert Hsu; Jemal Abawajy; D. Villa; F.J. Villanueva; F. Moya; F. Rincón; J. Barba; J.C. López Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a new service discovery protocol (SDP) suitable for wireless sensor networks (WSN). The constraints imposed by ultra low‐cost sensor...

...Jean‐Marc Pierson; Robert Hsu; Jemal Abawajy; Antônio Tadeu A. Gomes; Artur Ziviani; Bruno F. Bastos; Luciana S. Lima Purpose Although wireless grids have been originally thought of as isolated processing clusters, the possibility of their approaching – and connecting to – a fixed network allows...

...Chin‐Chen Chang; Chyi‐Ren Dow; Yi‐Bing Lin; Yung‐Chien Shih; Yuan‐Ying Hsu; Chien‐Hung Chen; Chien‐Chao Tseng; Edwin Sha Purpose The accuracy of sensor location estimation influences directly the quality and reliability of services provided by a wireless sensor network (WSN). However, current...

...Chin‐Chen Chang; Chyi‐Ren Dow; Yi‐Bing Lin; Shiow‐Fen Hwang; Kun‐Hsien Lu; Tsung‐Hsiang Chang; Chyi‐Ren Dow Purpose This paper aims to balance the total energy consumption and the transmission delay for data gathering application in wireless sensor networks. Design/methodology/approach...

...Xioabo Zhou; Bin Xiao; Edwin H.‐M. Sha; Giljae Lee; Yoonjoo Kwon; Woojin Seok; Minsun Lee Purpose Recent wireless communication and electronics technology has enabled the development of low‐cost, low‐power, and multi‐functional sensor nodes. However, the fact that sensor nodes are severely energy...

...Xioabo Zhou; Bin Xiao; Edwin H.‐M. Sha; Yohan Chae; Younggoo Kwon Purpose IEEE 802.15.4 is a new standard uniquely designed for low‐rate wireless sensor networks (WSNs). It targets low data rate, low power consumption and low‐cost wireless networking, and offers device level wireless connectivity...

...Xioabo Zhou; Bin Xiao; Edwin H.‐M. Sha; Daein Kim; Buhyun Hwang Purpose Recently the advances in wireless communication technology and the popularity of portable computers have rendered mobile computing environments from which mobile users with battery‐operated palmtops can access the information...

...Sherali Zeadally; Lu Yan; Shih‐Hao Shen; Yueh‐Min Huang; Jen‐Wen Ding Purpose Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are regarded as a milestone in developing next‐generation wireless networks. The multi‐hop architecture of WMN makes it very attractive. However, interoperability is an inherent problem...