Recharging Sensor Nodes Using Implicit Actor Coordination in Wireless Sensor Actor Networks

Recharging Sensor Nodes Using Implicit Actor Coordination in Wireless Sensor Actor Networks

Wireless sensor actor networks are composed of sensor and actor nodes wherein sensor nodes outnumber resource-rich actor nodes. Sensor nodes gather information and send them to a central node (sink) and/or to actors for proper actions. The short lifetime of energy-constrained sensor nodes can endanger the proper operation of the whole network when they run out of power and partition the network...

Actor coordination using info-gap decision theory in wireless sensor and actor networks

Mobile, unmanned, power and resource-rich devices, called actors, deployed within a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application area, enable faster response times to events. Due to cost constraints, only a few actors can be placed within a WSN application area. Determining which actor or set of actors should respond to an event is important, because the correct decision will increase the event re...

Communication and Coordination in Wireless Multimedia Sensor and Actor Networks

Intelligent Actor Mobility in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

In wireless sensor and actor network research, the commonly used mobility models for a mobile actor are random walk model, random waypoint mobility model, or variants thereof. For a fully connected network, the choice of mobility model for the actor is not critical because, there is at least one assured path from the sensor nodes to the actor node. But, for a sparsely connected network where in...

Efficient Actor Recovery Paradigm for Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

The actor nodes are the spine of wireless sensor and actor networks (WSANs) that collaborate to perform a specific task in an unverified and uneven environment. Thus, there is a possibility of high failure rate in such unfriendly scenarios due to several factors such as power consumption of devices, electronic circuit failure, software errors in nodes or physical impairment of the actor nodes a...