wireless sensor networks are composed of hundreds or thousands of small nodes called sensor that work together and are associated with a specific task or tasks to do. each of these nodes includes sensor, processor, communication components, a small memory and a source of energy. it is expected that wireless sensor networks will be used widely in many applications in near future. scalability and...

recently, data collection from seabed by means of underwater wireless sensor networks (uwsn) has attracted considerable attention. autonomous underwater vehicles (auvs) are increasingly used as uwsns in underwater missions. events and environmental parameters in underwater regions have a stochastic nature. the target area must be covered by sensors to observe and report events. a ‘topology cont...

Terrestrial wireless sensor networks with fixed and mobile nodes were initially developed for military applications such as battlefield surveillance and are now commonplace in many industrial and civilian application areas. It is easy to appreciate that such networks could be of immense value for military and civilian underwater tasks such as surveillance, monitoring and surveying. Autonomous u...

Nowadays, underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs) are known as a powerful technique for aquatic applications. UWNS has long propagation delay, limited bandwidth and higher error rates in comparison with ground based networks. Moreover, a terrestrial wireless communication uses radio waves, but underwater communication relies on acoustic waves. Similar to other wireless sensor networks, desi...

Wireless sensor networks are often located in areas where access to them is difficult or dangerous. Today, in wireless sensor networks, cluster-based routing protocols by dividing sensor nodes into distinct clusters and selecting local head-clusters to combine and send information of each cluster to the base station and balanced energy consumption by network nodes, get the best performance ...

in wireless sensor networks, optimal consumptionof energy and having maximum life time are important factors. in this article attempt has been made to send the data packets with particular reliability from the beginning based on aodv protocol. in this way two new fields add to the routing packets and during routing and discovering of new routes, the lowest remained energy of nodes and route tra...

Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs) provide a new opportunities to examine and predict the activities of aquatic environments. Some applications such as target tracking , disaster prevention etc where sensed data is worthless without any location information. Localization is the process of estimating the location of each node in a sensor network. In underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) de...

wireless sensor networks (wsns) have many applications in the areas of commercial, military and environmental requirements. regarding the deployment of low cost sensor nodes with restricted energy resources, these networks face a lot of security challenges. a basic approach for preparing a secure wireless communication in wsns, is to propose an efficient cryptographic key management protocol be...

Underwater acoustic networks have recently emerged as a promising approach for oceanic applications such as exploration and surveillance. This new type of networks differs from terrestrial wireless sensor networks in that the network nodes are powerful and well equipped with many resources for diverse applications in challenging environments. Existing operating systems for terrestrial wireless ...