Wireless Sensor Networks - An Information Processing Approach

• Main Authors: Zhao, Feng, Guibas, Leonidas J.
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco, Calif Elsevier 2004; Amsterdam ; Tokyo Elsevier Science; Morgan Kaufmann; Elsevier Science & Technology
• Edition: 1
• Series: The Morgan Kaufmann series in networking
• Subjects: Computer Hardware Engineering; Electronics & Semiconductors; Networks & Sensors; Sensor networks; Sensors Technology; Wireless LANs
• ISBN: 1558609148; 9781558609143

Information processing in sensor networks is a rapidly emerging area of computer science and electrical engineering research. Because of advances in micro-sensors, wireless networking and embedded processing, ad hoc networks of sensor are becoming increasingly available for commercial, military, and homeland security applications. Examples include monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrial sensing and diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), infrastructures (i.e., power grid, water distribution, waste disposal) and battle awareness (e.g., multi-target tracking). This book introduces practitioners to the fundamental issues and technology constraints concerning various aspects of sensor networks such as information organization, querying, routing, and self-organization using concrete examples and does so by using concrete examples from current research and implementation efforts.