http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
Fundamentals of wireless sensor networks
xviii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Introduction -- Motivation for a network of wireless sensor nodes -- Definitions and background -- Challenges and constraints -- Applications -- Structural health monitoring -- Traffic control -- Health care -- Pipeline monitoring -- Precision agriculture -- Active volcano -- Underground mining -- Node architecture -- The sensing subsystem -- The processor subsystem -- Communication interfaces -- Prototypes -- Operating systems -- Functional aspects -- Nonfunctional aspects -- Prototypes -- Evaluation -- Basic architectural framework -- Physical layer -- Basic components -- Source encoding -- Channel encoding -- Modulation -- Signal propagation -- Medium access control -- Overview -- Wireless MAC protocols -- Characteristics of MAC protocols in sensor networks -- Contention-free MAC protocols -- Contention-based MAC protocols -- Hybrid MAC protocols -- Network layer -- Overview -- Routing metrics -- Flooding and gossiping -- Data-centric routing -- Proactive routing -- On-demand routing -- Hierarchical routing -- Location-based routing -- QoS-based routing protocols -- Node and network management -- Power management -- Local power management aspects -- Dynamic power management -- Conceptual architecture -- Time synchronization -- Clocks and the synchronization problem -- Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks -- Basics of time synchronization -- Time synchronization protocols -- Localization -- Overview -- Ranging techniques -- Range-based localization -- Range-free localization -- Event-driven localization -- Security -- Fundamentals of network security -- Challenges of security in wireless sensor networks -- Protocols and mechanisms for security -- IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee security -- Summary -- Sensor network programming -- Challenges in sensor network programming -- Node-centric programming -- Macroprogramming -- Dynamic reprogramming -- Sensor network simulators.
Waltenegus Dargie, Christian Poellabauer.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Wiley series on wireless communications and mobile computing