coverage improvement is one of the main problems in wireless sensor networks. given a finite number of sensors, improvement of the sensor deployment will provide sufficient sensor coverage and save cost of sensors for locating in grid points. for achieving good coverage, the sensors should be placed in adequate places. this paper uses the genetic and learning automata as intelligent methods for...

There are large varieties of applications of wireless sensor networks. The two major applications of the wireless sensor network are tracking based and second is monitoring based. There are sensors which communicate with each other to form a network. In the wireless sensor network there are number of issues which affects the performance and efficiency of the wireless sensor network. This paper ...

A wearable Spoof Surface Plasmon Polariton Transmission Line (SSPP TL) operating at 2.45 GHz designed for embroidery production and on-body communication is proposed. The SSPP TL supports both even odd modes launched by near field coupling with a dipole antenna perpendicular parallel to the TL, respectively. First, experimental dispersion curves transmission are favourably compared simulations....

This paper represents a review of privacy preserving techniques in wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor networks are not secure. To preserve privacy of wireless sensor network various techniques are discovered. A lot of work has been done to address challenges faced to preserve privacy of wireless sensor network. In this paper we represent a research on privacy preserving techniques used in...

Recent technological advances in sensors, low-power microelectronics and miniaturization, and wireless networking enabled the design and proliferation of wireless sensor networks capable of autonomously monitoring and controlling environments. One of the most promising applications of sensor networks is for human health monitoring. A number of tiny wireless sensors, strategically placed on the ...

i ABSTRACT This dissertation presents the study of a wireless remote monitoring and control system utilized for cultural heritage preservation purpose. The system uses wireless sensor networks to remotely monitor and control the indoor climate, i.e., temperature and relative humidity of the cultural buildings. The system mainly consists of three parts, i.e., the wireless sensor network part, th...

Today, information networks play an important role in supply chain management. Therefore, in this article, clustering-based routing protocols, which are one of the most important ways to reduce energy consumption in wireless sensor networks, are used to optimize the supply chain informational cloud network. Accordingly, first, a clustering protocol is presented using self-organizing map neu...

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), the recent advancements of information and communication technologies enables deployment of sensor nodes on our human body. Therefore the present health care scenario enables the dynamic and continuous patient health monitoring by configuring small sensors into patients body. Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN) are one of the special kinds of networks whic...

Wireless sensor networks are event-based systems based on the collaboration of several micro sensor nodes. Due to the limited supply of power at sensor nodes, power efficient configuration of wireless sensor network has become a major design goal to improve the lifetime of the network. The cluster-based wireless sensor network can enhance the whole network lifetime by aggregating the collected ...