Wireless Sensor Networks

✍ Scribed by C.S. Raghavendra, Krishna M. Sivalingam, Taieb Znati

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 443
• Series: ERCOFTAC Series
• 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.

✦ Table of Contents

Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Contributing Authors......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Sensor Networks: A Bridge to the Physical World......Page 20
Communication Protocols for Sensor Networks......Page 38
Energy Efficient Design of Wireless Sensor Nodes......Page 68
Medium Access Control in Wireless Sensor Networks......Page 90
A Survey of MAC Protocols for Sensor Networks......Page 110
Dissemination Protocols for Large Sensor Networks......Page 126
Routing On A Curve......Page 146
Reliable Transport For Sensor Networks......Page 170
Data-centric Routing and Storage in Sensor Networks......Page 202
Compression Techniques for Wireless Sensor Networks......Page 224
Fundamental Limits of Networked Sensing......Page 250
Security for Wireless Sensor Networks......Page 270
Key Distribution Techniques for Sensor Networks......Page 294
Security in Sensor Networks: Watermarking Techniques......Page 322
Localization in Sensor Networks......Page 344
Sensor Management......Page 368
Detecting Unauthorized Activities Using A Sensor Network......Page 392
Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks for Habitat Monitoring......Page 416
Index......Page 442