Factors that May Influence the Performance of Wireless Sensor Networks

The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are penetrating more and more our daily life. They are used in a large type of applications as supervision, tracking and control in military, environmental, medical and several other domains. Therefore, new approaches and protocols are proposed every day in order to optimise the performance of the WSNs and to increase their reliability and quality of service. These new protocols take into consideration the challenges of the WSN and they are built up some key factors (parameters and concepts) to achieve their goals.

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