Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks / Edition 1

by Sudip Misra, Isaac Woungang, Subhas Chandra Misra

Overview

Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In WSNs, communication takes place with the help of spatially distributed autonomous sensor nodes equipped to sense specific information. WSNs, especially the ones that have gained much popularity in the recent years, are, ty- cally, ad hoc in nature and they inherit many characteristics/features of wireless ad hoc networks such as the ability for infrastructure-less setup, minimal or no reliance on network planning, and the ability of the nodes to self-organize and self-configure without the involvement of a centralized network manager, router, access point, or a switch. These features help to set up WSNs fast in situations where there is no existing network setup or in times when setting up a fixed infrastructure network is considered infeasible, for example, in times of emergency or during relief- erations. WSNs find a variety of applications in both the military and the civilian population worldwide such as in cases of enemy intrusion in the battlefield, object tracking, habitat monitoring, patient monitoring,—re detection, and so on. Even though sensor networks have emerged to be attractive and they hold great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. Some of the well-known challenges are attributed to issues relating to coverage and deployment, scalability, quality-of-service, size, computational power, energy efficiency, and security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848822177
Publisher:	Springer London
Publication date:	06/10/2009
Series:	Computer Communications and Networks
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	707
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.80(d)

Table of Contents

Energy Efficient Information Processing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Topology Management for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Geometric Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Cooperative Relaying in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Data-Centricity in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Congestion and Flow Control in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Data Transport Control in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Fault-Tolerant Algorithms/Prools in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Self-Organizing and Self-Healing Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Quality of Service in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Embedded Operating Systems in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Adaptive Distributed Resource Allocation for Sensor Networks.- Scheduling Activities in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Energy-Efficient Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Energy-Efficient Resource Management Techniques in Wireless SensorNetworks.- Transmission Power Control Techniques in Ad Hoc Networks.- Security in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks.- Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks: The Comfortable Way of Application Development.- Wireless Mobile Sensor Networks: Prools and Mobility Strategies.- Analysis Methods for Sensor Networks.- Bio-inspired Communications in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems for Global and Homeland Security Applications.

Editorial Reviews

From the reviews: “This useful book dedicated to wireless sensor networks is the editor’s follow up to their recent guide to wireless and ad hoc networks … . The book presents general and specialized aspects of sensor networks … . This book is a useful introduction to the emergent topic of sensor networks. Its target audience is students at intermediate and advanced levels. Teachers can obtain from the publisher presentation slides for classroom use and a manual with answers to the questions included in each chapter.” (Alessandro Berni, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2010)

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