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Sergio Toral 1 and Ciprian Dobre 2 and Bernabé Dorronsoro 3 and Mesut Günes 4 and Daniel G. Reina 1
1, Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Seville, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
2, Computer Science Department, University Politehnica of Bucharest, 060042 Bucharest, Romania
3, School of Engineering, University of Cadiz, 11519 Cadiz, Spain
4, Communication and Networked Systems (ComSys), Institute of Computer Science, University of Munster, 48149 Münster, Germany
Received 25 February 2016; Accepted 25 February 2016; 31 March 2016
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Multihop wireless sensor network is a mature research field that covers many topics and different classes of networks. Despite previous results and a vast literature on the topic, many problems related to modern network infrastructures such as coverage, deployment, routing, broadcasting, mobility, and energy consumption are still challenging, as solving them to optimality is certainly far from easy. Additionally, the desirable performance features are usually in conflict, meaning that tuning the network to improve one of them will negatively impact others. This difficulty, together with the high number of network parameters involved and...