| With its origins in the early nineties, the subject of wireless sensor networks
has seen an explosive growth in interest in both academia and industry. In just
the past five years several hundred papers have been written on the subject. I
have written this book because I believe there is an urgent need to make this vast
literature more readily accessible to students, researchers, and design engineers.
The book aims to provide the reader with a comprehensive, organized survey
of the many protocols and fundamental design concepts developed for wireless
sensor networks in recent years. The topics covered are wide-ranging: deployment,
localization, synchronization, wireless link characteristics, medium-access,
sleep scheduling and topology control, routing, data-centric concepts, and congestion
control.
This book has its origins in notes, lectures, and discussions from a graduate
course on wireless sensor networks that I’ve taught thrice at the University of
Southern California in the past two years. This text will be of interest to senior
undergraduate and graduate students in electrical engineering, computer science,
and related engineering disciplines, as well as researchers and practitioners in
academia and industry. |
