Compressive Sensing (CS) can use fewer samples to recover a great number of original data, which have a sparse representation in a proper basis. For energy-constrained Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), CS provides an effective data gathering approach. Gaussian random matrix satisfies Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) with high probability. The class of matrices is usually selected as the measur...

Unlike traditional multihop forwarding among homogeneous static sensor nodes, use of mobile devices for data collection in wireless sensor networks has recently been gathering more attention. It is known that the use of mobility significantly reduces the energy consumption at each sensor, elongating the functional lifetime of the network, in exchange for increased data delivery latency. However...

We focus on data gathering problems in energy-constrained networked sensor systems. We study storeand-gather problems where data are locally stored at the sensors before the data gathering starts, and continuous sensing and gathering problems that model time critical applications. We show that these problems reduce to maximization of network flow under vertex capacity constraint. This flow prob...

Recently the increasing number of sensors integrated in smartphones, especially the iPhone and Android phones, has motivated the development of routing algorithms for Opportunistic Mobile Sensor Networks (OppMSNs). Although there are many existing opportunistic routing algorithms, researchers still have an ambiguous understanding of how these schemes perform on OppMSNs with heterogeneous archit...

We focus on data gathering problems in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks. We study store-and-gather problems where data are locally stored on the sensors before the data gathering starts, and continuous sensing and gathering problems that model time critical applications. We show that these problems reduce to maximization of network flow under vertex capacity constraint, which reduces...

Sink mobility has been viewed as an important technique to improve network performance for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) such as energy consumption and balancing, network lifetime, throughput, end-to-end delay etc. Also, it can largely mitigate the hot spots near sink node as sink node moves randomly or autonomously. In many applications of WSNs, sensors are deployed in areas accessed by laid...

Applications that require fast response time such as emergency preparedness and hostile environment surveillance pose challenging obstacles to wireless sensor network (WSN) protocols. A routing protocol must provide fast and reliable techniques for data propagation. Most routing solutions for WSNs utilize static sinks to collect data from the entire network. This approach results in high traffi...

Information privacy and personal data in information systems are referred to as the ‘new oil’ of the 21st century. The mass adoption of smart mobile devices, sensor-enabled smart IoT-devices, and mobile applications provide virtually endless possibilities of gathering users’ personal information. Previous research suggests that users attribute very little monetary value to their information pri...