Sensor nodes usually operate by using limited energy sources. In order to achieve efficient energy utilization in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), we need an effective network design approach. This paper presents a study of the optimal network design for minimizing energy consumption in continuous datagathering WSNs. We model the network design problem as an integer linear programming. Our key ...

Due to the resource constraint and dynamic parameters, reducing energy consumption became the most important issues of wireless sensor networks topology design. All proposed hierarchy methods cluster a WSN in different cluster layers in one step of evolutionary algorithm usage with complicated parameters which may lead to reducing efficiency and performance. In fact, in WSNs topology, increasin...

key distribution is an important problem in wireless sensor networks where sensor nodesare randomly scattered in adversarial environments.due to the random deployment of sensors, a list of keys must be pre-distributed to each sensor node before deployment. to establish a secure communication, two nodes must share common key from their key-rings. otherwise, they can find a key- path in which ens...

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...

Advances in sensor technology and computer networks have enabled distributed sensor networks (DSNs) to evolve from small clusters of large sensors to large swarms of micro sensors, from fixed sensor nodes to mobile nodes, from wired communications to wireless communications, from static network topology to dynamically changing topology. To design these networks, the factors needed to be conside...

This paper presents an ultra-low-power single-chip sensor-node VLSI for wireless-sensor-network applications. A communication centric design approach has been introduced to reduce the power consumption of the RF circuits and the entire sensor network system, through a vertical cooperative design among circuits, architecture, and communication protocols. The sensor-node LSI features a synchronou...

recently different approaches have been developed in the field of sensor fault diagnostics based on auto-associative neural network (aann). in this paper we present a novel algorithm called self reconstructing auto-associative neural network (s-aann) which is able to detect and isolate single faulty sensor via reconstruction. we have also extended the algorithm to be applicable in multiple faul...

in this paper we proposed a cellular automaton based local algorithm to solve the autonomously sensor gathering problem in mobile wireless sensor networks (mwsn). in this problem initially the connected mobile sensors deployed in the network and goal is gather all sensors into one location. the sensors decide to move only based on their local information. cellular automaton (ca) as dynamical sy...