Wireless sensor networks are currently being employed in a variety of applications ranging from medical to military, and from home to industry. Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications aims to provide a reference tool for the increasing number of scientists who depend upon sensor networks in some way. The topics covered include network design and modeling, network management, data management, security and applications. The topic covered in each chapter is given expository but also scholarly treatment, covering the history of the topic, reviewing state-of-the-art thinking relative to the topic, and discussing currently unsolved problems of special interest.

Wireless sensor networks are currently employed in a variety of applications ranging from medical to military, and from home to industry. This book provides a reference tool for the increasing number of scientists who depend upon sensor networks in a widening variety of ways. Coverage includes network design and modeling, network management, data management, security and applications. The topic covered in each chapter receives expository as well as scholarly treatment, covering its history, reviewing state-of-the-art thinking relative to the topic, and discussing currently unsolved problems of special interest.

Contains the most current techniques and advances in sensor networks

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Network Design and Network Modelling.- A Taxonomy-based Approach to Design of Large-scale Sensor Networks.- Algorithms for Robotic Deployment of WSN in Adaptive Sampling Applications.- A Scalable Graph Model and Coordination Algorithms for Mobile Sensor Networks.- Network Management.- Medium Access Control Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Topology Control for Wireless Sensor Networks.- Boundary Detection for Sensor Networks.- TPSS: A Time-based Positioning Scheme for Sensor Networks with Short Range Beacons.- Wakeup Strategies in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Time-Synchronization Challenges and Techniques.- Location Service, Information Dissemination and Object Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks by Using Quorum Methods.- Maximizing the Lifetime of an Always-On Wireless Sensor Network Application: A Case Study.- Data Management.- Data Management in Sensor Networks.- Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Performance Comparison of Clustering Schemes in Sensor Networks.- Reliable and Efficient Information Forwarding and Traffic Engineering in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Modeling Data Gathering in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Security.- A Survey on Sensor Network Security.- A Passive Approach to Unauthorized Sensor Node Identification.