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Fundamentals of wireless sensor networks : theory and practice /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dargie, Waltenegus
Other Authors: Poellabauer, Christian
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley, 2010.
Series:Wiley series on wireless communications and mobile computing.
Subjects:
Wireless sensor networks.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.