Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Markov Decision Processes with Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks:
  A Survey   Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of autonomous and resource-limited
devices. The devices cooperate to monitor one or more physical phenomena within
an area of interest. WSNs operate as stochastic systems because of randomness
in the monitored environments. For long service time and low maintenance cost,
WSNs require adaptive and robust methods to address data exchange, topology
formulation, resource and power optimization, sensing coverage and object
detection, and security challenges. In these problems, sensor nodes are to make
optimized decisions from a set of accessible strategies to achieve design
goals. This survey reviews numerous applications of the Markov decision process
(MDP) framework, a powerful decision-making tool to develop adaptive algorithms
and protocols for WSNs. Furthermore, various solution methods are discussed and
compared to serve as a guide for using MDPs in WSNs.

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The categories of this paper are: math-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-fin
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph
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The categories of this paper are: q-alg
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th