This paper describes a comprehensive methodology for improving Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) in healthcare systems using Enhanced Gray Wolf Optimization (GWO). The methodology begins with WBAN initialization and the configuration of critical ...

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have been an essential part of our lives, with various applications from disaster assistance to medical services. As a result, the lifetime and energy consumption of WMSNs have become challenging ...

A Mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a wireless, self-configuring network, dynamic in nature and works without any topology. Due to its widespread usage in many heterogeneous networks like Internet of Things (IoT) and the requirement for ...

In this era of telecommunication, quality of service (QoS) is the prime metric for defining the performance of wireless networks. However, QoS is highly affected by the levels of signal strength. Variations in signal strength lead to several ...

The clustering mechanism in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is the ideal strategy for constructing an energy efficient protocol for achieving extended network lifetime, energy efficiency, and scalability. The design of energy efficient ...

Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) can gather multi-media events such as road traffic accidents, object monitoring, and scalar data. Additionally, multimedia applications have the potential to generate substantial bandwidth congestion ...

In spite of the severe limitations on the resources of the sensor nodes such as memory, computational power, transmission range and battery, the application areas of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasing day by day. The main challenge in ...

Mobile Data Collector device (MDC) is adopted to reduce the energy consumption in Wireless Sensor Networks. This device travels the network in order to gather the collected data from sensor nodes. This paper presents a new Tree Clustering ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) organizes sensors for data exchanges with storage resources and limited energy. Recharging or replacement of batteries in mobile sensor nodes are mostly not possible. In WSN, one of the crucial issues is energy ...

Wireless data transmission on the Internet of Things (IoT) needs data-aware communication protocols. Clustering is one of the effective network management approaches that enhance the lifetime of IoT. The primary challenge in the data transmission ...

While proceeding towards the age of Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is going to play an indispensable role in the overall networking architecture. Applications like health care, smart-city etc. are extensively ...

With the flourish development of the fifth generation mobile communication (5G) and Internet of Things (IoT) research, as an important complementary form of 5G, Ad Hoc network has developed rapidly in the field of wireless communication. AOMDV ...

The coverage hole problem in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is one of the most important problem. The data has to be communicated through the base station that every sensor node have to be communicated to the adjacent nodes within its ...

In the clustering method, the cluster head node loses much energy between transmissions to the base station, confirming that determining the cluster heads is crucial. A robust determination protocol needs to pick cluster heads depending on the ...

The distributed management of residual energy among sensor devices within wireless sensor networks is a crucial technique that can be leveraged to maximize network lifetime. This paper proposes an approach towards this goal based on an ultra-low-...

This paper proposes a routing protocol established upon the IEEE 802.15.4a that enhances the delay and energy efficiency in Wireless sensor networks (WSN) using two-hop information. Owing to the miniaturized form and non-rechargeable ...

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• A novel potential relay information (PRI) metric which measures the routing abilities of nodes in WSN is introduced. The PRI reflects real timeliness and ...

In recent years, the need to deploy Wireless Sensor Networks increases in different applications. Several studies have been proposed to demonstrate the importance to use Mobile Data Collectors (MDC) in Wireless sensor Networks. The main goal of ...

Aiming at the problem of "hot zone" caused by unbalanced energy consumption in wireless sensor networks (WSN), an uneven clustering routing algorithm based on balanced energy consumption is proposed. In the stage of cluster head election, a timed ...

How to achieve energy-efficient transmission in radio frequency energy harvesting cognitive radio network (RF-CRN) is of great importance when nodes in CRN are self-maintained. This paper presents a radio frequency (RF) energy harvesting hardware-...

In this study, a triangular fuzzy-based spectral cluster routing (TF-SCR) mechanism is proposed in order to improve network lifetime and reliability of data packet transmission in WSN with minimum routing overhead. The designed TF-SCR mechanism ...