Due to the battery resource constraints, saving energy is a critical issue in wireless sensor networks, particularly in large sensor networks. One possible solution is to deploy multiple sink nodes simultaneously. Another possible solution is to employ an adaptive clustering hierarchy routing scheme. In this paper, we propose a multiple sink cluster wireless sensor networks scheme which combine...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have the potential to change the way we perform many tasks today. Examples include military applications, agriculture applications and medical applications. Routing protocols in WSN have to operate in challenged environments. In these environments, packet losses and node failures are common. One other challenge is the limited power supply of sensors since they are...

Conventional MAC protocols for wireless sensor network perform poorly when faced with a delay-tolerant mobile network environment. Characterized by a highly dynamic and sparse topology, poor network connectivity as well as data delay-tolerance, delay-tolerant mobile sensor networks exacerbate the severe power constraints and memory limitations of nodes. This paper proposes an energy-efficient M...

The power consumption and latency of existing MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are high in heterogeneous convergecast, where each sensor node generates different amounts of data in one convergecast operation. To solve this problem, we present W-MAC, a workload-aware MAC protocol for heterogeneous convergecast in WSNs. A subtree-based iterative cascading scheduling mechanism and...

In this paper, we propose a scheme for double-layered mobile P2P systems that enhances energy efficiency by modifying PSM(Power Saving Mode) defined in 802.11. The proposed scheme lengthens the beacon interval adaptively and adopts a known power saving scheme for more power saving. The experimental results showed that the proposed scheme improved 58.3% in terms of the average energy saving and ...

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Combined heat and power systems are becoming more and more important, regarding their enhanced efficiency, energy saving, and environmental aspects. In the peresent study, three configurations of combined heat and power systems are intended as an alternative to separate production plant by considering environmental aspects. First and second laws of thermodynamics are adapted to the operatin...

In this paper, we consider a simple but efficient medium access control (MAC) protocol that can be used in an ad hoc network with asynchronous multi-channel environments. The approach in our proposal is to use time offset between channels where each channel has its own frame starting time. We assume that the network runs in power saving mode (PSM) of the IEEE 802.11 standard protocol where the ...

In wireless sensor networks, sensors are usually battery-powered. Therefore, it is essential to reduce energy consumption to prolong network lifetime. In traditional power saving MAC protocols, such as IEEE 802.11 Power Saving Mode and SMAC, sensor nodes must wake up at every beacon interval to check if they are involved in any transmission. Such a fixed active/sleep mechanism fails to adjust a...

In China, coal combustion to generate electric power is the primary method, the energy-saving and emission reduction is the urgent task. At present, the energy-saving dispatching trial method in some area evaluates energy-saving and emission reduction of coal combustion power generation according to power supply coal consumption rate only. But the power supply coal consumption rate can’t reflec...