The Internet of things (IoT) is a wireless network designed to perform specific tasks and plays a crucial role in various fields such as environmental monitoring, surveillance, and healthcare. To address the limitations imposed by inadequate resources, energy, and network scalability, this type...

The frequency and severity of extreme weather events have increased over the last 30 years, making predictability of weather a challenge. Weather extreme events often cause adverse impacts to lives and property. Thus, accurate and timely provision of weather data is becoming crucial to improve...

The frequency and severity of extreme weather events have increased over the last 30 years, making predictability of weather a challenge. Weather extreme events often cause adverse impacts to lives and property. Thus, accurate and timely provision of weather data is becoming crucial to improve...

The world's population is expected to double by 2050; world food supply is unlikely to double by doubling the area under cultivation or by doubling the availability of water. There are other challenges too, such as decline in the number of farms and a decline in the number of agriculture workforce....

This research involves the design, development, and theoretical demonstration of models resulting in integrated misbehavior resolution protocols for ad hoc networked devices. Game theory was used to analyze strategic interaction among independent devices with conflicting interests. Packet...

In many practical problems, both decision and estimation are involved. This dissertation intends to study the relationship between decision and estimation in these problems, so that more accurate inference methods can be developed. Hybrid estimation is an important formulation that deals with...