Wireless Sensor Networks

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), industrail 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.