Wireless Sensor Networks

✍ Scribed by Jeremy Elson, Deborah Estrin (auth.), C. S. Raghavendra, Krishna M. Sivalingam, Prof. Taieb Znati (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 421
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Wireless Sensor Networks presents a comprehensive and tightly organized compilation of chapters that surveys many of the exciting research developments taking place in this field. Chapters are written by several of the leading researchers exclusively for this book. Authors address many of the key challenges faced in the design, analysis and deployment of wireless sensor networks. Included is coverage of low-cost sensor devices equipped with wireless interfaces, sensor network protocols for large scale sensor networks, data storage and compression techniques, security architectures and mechanisms, and many practical applications that relate to use in environmental, military, medical, industrial and home networks.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Sensor Networks: A Bridge to the Physical World....Pages 3-20
Communication Protocols for Sensor Nerworks....Pages 21-50
Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Nodes....Pages 51-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 73-91
A Survey of MAC Protocols for Sensor Networks....Pages 93-107
Dissemination Protocols for Large Sensor Networks....Pages 109-128
Routing on a Curve....Pages 129-151
Reliable Transport for Sensor Networks....Pages 153-182
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
Data-Centric Routing and Storage in Sensor Networks....Pages 185-205
Compression Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 207-231
Fundamental Limits of Networked Sensing....Pages 233-249
Front Matter....Pages 251-251
Security for Wireless Sensor Networks....Pages 253-275
Key Distribution Techniques for Sensor Networks....Pages 277-303
Security in Sensor Networks: Watermarking Techniques....Pages 305-323
Front Matter....Pages 325-325
Localization in Sensor Networks....Pages 327-349
Sensor Management....Pages 351-372
Front Matter....Pages 373-373
Detecting Unauthorized Activities Using a Sensor Network....Pages 375-398
Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring....Pages 399-423
Back Matter....Pages 425-426

✦ Subjects

Electronic and Computer Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; The Computing Profession