1. Edition - July 2010
83.90 Euro
2010. 330 Pages, Hardcover
- Professional Book -
ISBN-10: 0-470-99765-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-470-99765-9 - John Wiley & Sons






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Short description
This book is a cross layer, multidimensional guide to wireless sensor networks. The Anatomy of Wireless Sensor Networks, known as WSNs, provides readers with an in-depth discussion of what wireless sensor networks are, their practical applications and their anatomy. Building on the author's practical industrial experience, this book combines the basics of WSN and their architecture and shows how a large-scale network can be deployed. Expert insight takes the reader through the entire process of designing, building, deploying and testing a real-world, commercial application of WSNs.

From the contents
Preface

Part One Introduction

1 Motivation for a Network of Wireless Sensor Nodes

1.1 Definitions and Background

1.2 Challenges and Constraints

1.3 Structure of the Book

References

2 Applications

2.1 Structural Health Monitoring

2.2 Traffic Control

2.3 Health Care

2.4 Pipeline Monitoring

2.5 Precision Agriculture

2.6 Active Volcano

2.7 Underground Mining

References

3 Node Architecture

3.1 The Sensing Subsystem

3.2 The Processor Subsystem

3.3 Communication Interfaces

3.4 Prototypes

References

4 Operating Systems

4.1 Functional Aspects

4.2 Non Functional Aspects

4.3 Prototypes

4.4 Evaluation

References

Part Two Basic Architectural Framework

5 Physical Layer

5.1 Basic Components

5.2 Source Encoding

5.3 Chanel Encoding

5.4 Modulation

5.5 Signal Propagation

References

6 Medium Access Control

6.1 Overview

6.2 Wireless MAC protocols

6.3 Characteristics of MAC Protocols in Sensor Networks

6.4 Contention Free MAC Protocols

6.5 Contention Based MAC Protocols

6.6 Hybrid MAC Protocols

6.7 Summary

References

7 Network Layer

7.1 Overview

7.2 Routing Metrics

7.3 Flooding and Gossiping

7.4 Data Centric Routing

7.5 Proactive Routing

7.6 On Demand Routing

7.7 Hierarchical Routing

7.8 Location Based Routing

7.9 Quality of Service Based Routing Protocols

7.10 Summary

References

Part Three Node and Network Management

8 Power Management

8.1 Local Power Management Aspects

8.2 Dynamic power management

8.3 Conceptual Architecture

References

9 Time Synchronization

9.1 Clocks and the Synchronization Problem

9.2 Time Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks

9.3 Basics of Time Synchronization

9.4 Time Synchronization Protocols

References

10 Localization

10.1 Overview

10.2 Ranging Techniques

10.3 Range Based Localization

10.4 Range Free Localization

10.5 Event Driven Localization

References

11 Security

11.1 Fundamentals of Network Security

11.2 Challenges of Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

11.3 Security Attacks in Sensor Networks

11.4 Protocols and Mechanisms for Security

11.5 IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee Security

11.6 Summary

References

12 Sensor Network Programming

12.1 Challenges in Sensor Network Programming

12.2 Node Centric Programming

12.3 Macroprogramming

12.4 Dynamic Reprogramming

12.5 Sensor Network Simulators

References