In a large class of sensor network deployments, a small subset of the sensors covering the sensor field is equipped with special communications capability to communicate with operators outside the sensor field. These sensors play the role of gateways for off-field communication in the sense that all communications toor out of the field is through these nodes, and the other non-gateway nodes are...

Energy conservation of sensor nodes for increasing the network life is the most crucial design goal while developing efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. Recent technological advances help in the development of wide variety of sensor nodes. Heterogeneity takes the advantage of different types of sensor nodes and improves the energy efficiency and network life. Generally sens...

A set of sensor nodes is the basic component of a sensor network. Many researchers are currently engaged in developing pervasive sensor nodes due to the great promise and potential with applications shown by various wireless remote sensor networks. This short paper describes the concept of sensor node architecture and current research activities on sensor node development at ICTCAS. 1 The Conce...

Sensor networks are specially constructed networks for collecting data from sensor nodes and delivering it to sink nodes at the end. Each nodes in a sensor network are small embedded systems, which require wireless communication among them with limited hardware constraints. If programmers develop sensor network applications for a large-area sensor network, the development of application will be...

Cluster-based Wireless Sensor Network (CWSN) is a kind of WSNs that because of avoiding long distance communications, preserve the energy of nodes and so is attractive for related applications. The criticality of most applications of WSNs and also their unattended nature, makes sensor nodes often susceptible to many types of attacks. Based on this fact, it is clear that cluster heads (CHs) are ...

Routing is an important challenge in WSN due to the presence of hundreds or thousands of sensor nodes. Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) is a hierarchical routing and data dissemination protocol. LEACH divides a network domain into several sub-domains that are called clusters. Non-uniformity of cluster distribution and CHs selection without considering the positions of other sens...

Sensor networks [1] contain a large number of sensor nodes that collect some kind of data, for example temperature or air pressure, from the environment. Even though both wireless ad hoc networks and sensors networks communicate wirelessly, they are quite different from each other. The number of nodes in sensor networks can be several orders of magnitude larger than in ad hoc networks. Sensor n...

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is one of the fastest growing segments in the ubiquitous networking today. The important function of a sensor network is to collect and forward data to destination. It is very important to know about the location of collected data. This kind of information can be obtained using localization technique in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Localization is a way to dete...

A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a specialized wireless network that composes of a number of sensor nodes deployed in a specified area for monitoring environment conditions such as temperature, air pressure, humidity, light, motion or vibration, and so on. The sensor nodes are usually programmed to monitor or collect data from surrounding environment and pass the information to the base stati...

A framework for the autonomous management of large-scale ubiquitous sensor networks called SNOWMAN (SeNsOr netWork MANagement) is proposed in this paper. In large-scale ubiquitous sensor networks, a huge number of sensor nodes are deployed over a wide area and long distances and multi-hop communication is required between nodes. So managing numerous ubiquitous sensor nodes directly is very comp...