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Self-Adaptive Strategy Based on Fuzzy Control Systems for Improving Performance in Wireless Sensors Networks

Publicated to: SENSORS. 15 (9): 24125-24142 - 2015-09-18 15(9), DOI: 10.3390/s150924125

Authors:

Diaz, VH; Martínez, JF; Martínez, NL; del Toro, RM
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Affiliations

Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Automat & Robot, Arganda Del Rey 28500, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Ctr Invest Tecnol Software & Sistemas Multimedia, E-28040 Madrid, Spain - Author

Abstract

The solutions to cope with new challenges that societies have to face nowadays involve providing smarter daily systems. To achieve this, technology has to evolve and leverage physical systems automatic interactions, with less human intervention. Technological paradigms like Internet of Things (IoT) and Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are providing reference models, architectures, approaches and tools that are to support cross-domain solutions. Thus, CPS based solutions will be applied in different application domains like e-Health, Smart Grid, Smart Transportation and so on, to assure the expected response from a complex system that relies on the smooth interaction and cooperation of diverse networked physical systems. The Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) are a well-known wireless technology that are part of large CPS. The WSN aims at monitoring a physical system, object, (e.g., the environmental condition of a cargo container), and relaying data to the targeted processing element. The WSN communication reliability, as well as a restrained energy consumption, are expected features in a WSN. This paper shows the results obtained in a real WSN deployment, based on SunSPOT nodes, which carries out a fuzzy based control strategy to improve energy consumption while keeping communication reliability and computational resources usage among boundaries.
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Keywords

cyber-physical systemsfuzzy logicself-adaptiveComputer communication networksCyber-physical systemsFuzzy logicSelf-adaptiveSoftwareWireless sensors networksWireless technology

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal SENSORS due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2015, it was in position 16/27, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Electrochemistry.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-25:

  • Google Scholar: 13
  • WoS: 7
  • Scopus: 9
  • Europe PMC: 3
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-25:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 58.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 58 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 2.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 3 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
  • Assignment of a Handle/URN as an identifier within the deposit in the Institutional Repository: https://oa.upm.es/38164/

As a result of the publication of the work in the institutional repository, statistical usage data has been obtained that reflects its impact. In terms of dissemination, we can state that, as of

  • Views: 542
  • Downloads: 210
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (HERNANDEZ DIAZ, VICENTE) and Last Author (del Toro, Raul M.).

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Awards linked to the item

This work has been supported by the European projects Design, Monitoring, and Operation of Adaptive Networked Embedded Systems (DEMANES) and Sustainable-Smart Grid Open System for the Aggregated Control, Monitoring and Management of Energy (e-GOTHAM). Both has been funded by ARTEMIS-JU (projects code ARTEMIS-JU 295372 and ARTEMIS-JU 295378 respectively) and Ministerio de Industria, Energia y Turismo of Spain (projects code ART-010000-2012-002 and ART-010000-2012-003 respectively).
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