Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are two-tier wireless multihop networks. The top tier is made of wireless routers, which provide access to the wireless clients in the bottom tier. One technology for enabling multi-hop communication in the top tier is IEEE 802.16, which includes a mesh mode, in addition to the Point-to-Multipoint mode for cellular networks. As is often the case with wireless netwo...

In this paper, we present a two-tiered scheduling approach for effective energy conservation in wireless sensor networks. The effectiveness of this mechanism relies on dynamically updated two-tiered scheduling architecture. We aim to prolong network lifetime, while preserving the major requirements of wireless sensor networks: coverage and connectivity. In this approach, sensors are periodicall...

Two-tier network structure is usually used to lighten the energy consumption in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) for large scale surveillance application. Previous methods for target tracking in two-tier WMSNs mostly focused on reducing energy cost to prolong lifetime of the networks without considering the effect of visual target tracking. This paper presents a collaborative multi-t...