About this Research Topic
To address this concern, the design of wireless sensor-based products requires the consideration of such issues as low-power hardware design, data reduction and aggregation, duty cycling, routing protocols, localization, data rate adaptation, sensor activation, cross-layer optimization, energy harvesting, data storage and processing, topology control, network management and monitoring, lifetime maximization algorithms, and underwater data routing. To achieve efficient energy conservation while also meeting the core application-specific requirements, WSNs may employ a combination of these techniques, with the eventual choice depending on the individual goals, constraints, and characteristics of the WSN deployment.
This Research Topic welcomes contributions that explore all of these issues. Other topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Energy-efficient sensors;
- Energy-efficient physical layer and communication protocols;
- Energy-efficient scheduling algorithms;
- Energy-efficient cross-layer design issues;
- Energy issues in device-to-device wireless communication;
- Energy efficiency in drone technologies;
- Energy-efficient underwater communication;
- Energy-efficient edge computing techniques;
- Energy harvesting techniques for wireless devices.
Keywords: wireless sensors, smart devices, energy-efficient sensors, wireless networks, smart communication
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