Encyclopedia on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

Encyclopedia on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing

Author: Dharma P. Agrawal

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 981283348X

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Ad hoc and ubiquitous computing technologies have received extensive attention in both the academia and industry with the explosive growth of wireless communication devices. These technologies are beneficial for many applications, such as offering futuristic high bandwidth access for users, and are expected to offer more exciting and efficient services, anytime and anywhere. In order to satisfy these diverse applications, The design issues of various wireless networks such as ad hoc, sensor, and mesh networks are extremely complicated and there are a number of technique challenges that need to be explored, involving every layer of the OSI protocol stack. This book aims to provide a complete understanding of these networks by investigating the evolution of ad hoc, sensor, and mesh networking technologies from theoretic concept to implementation protocols, from fundamentals to real applications. it provides the necessary background material needed to go deeper into the subject and explore the research literature. The explanation in the book is therefore sufficiently detailed to serve as a comprehensive reference for students, instructors, researchers, engineers, and other professionals, building their understanding of these networks.


Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Jun Zheng

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-10-27

Total Pages: 521

ISBN-13: 0470443510

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Learn the fundamental concepts, major challenges, and effective solutions in wireless sensor networking This book provides a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the fundamental concepts, major challenges, and effective solutions in wireless sensor networking (WSN). Distinguished from other books, it focuses on the networking aspects of WSNs and covers the most important networking issues, including network architecture design, medium access control, routing and data dissemination, node clustering, node localization, query processing, data aggregation, transport and quality of service, time synchronization, network security, and sensor network standards. With contributions from internationally renowned researchers, Wireless Sensor Networks expertly strikes a balance between fundamental concepts and state-of-the-art technologies, providing readers with unprecedented insights into WSNs from a networking perspective. It is essential reading for a broad audience, including academic researchers, research engineers, and practitioners in industry. It is also suitable as a textbook or supplementary reading for electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science courses at the graduate level.


Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Author: Feng Zhao

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2003-04-10

Total Pages: 688

ISBN-13: 3540021116

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2003, held in Palo Alto, CA, USA, in April 2003. The 23 revised full papers and 21 revised poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions. Among the topics addressed are wireless sensor networks, query processing, decentralized sensor platforms, distributed databases, distributed group management, sensor network design, collaborative signal processing, adhoc sensor networks, distributed algorithms, distributed sensor network control, sensor network resource management, data service middleware, random sensor networks, mobile agents, target tracking, sensor network protocols, large scale sensor networks, and multicast.


A Complete Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks

A Complete Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Ankur Dumka

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2019-05-31

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1000008789

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This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major aspects in designing, implementing, and deploying wireless sensor networks by discussing present research on WSNs and their applications in various disciplines. It familiarizes readers with the current state of WSNs and how such networks can be improved to achieve effectiveness and efficiency. It starts with a detailed introduction of wireless sensor networks and their applications and proceeds with layered architecture of WSNs. It also addresses prominent issues such as mobility, heterogeneity, fault-tolerance, intermittent connectivity, and cross layer optimization along with a number of existing solutions to stimulate future research.


Designing Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR

Designing Wireless Sensor Network Solutions for Tactical ISR

Author: Timothy D. Cole

Publisher: Artech House

Published: 2020-09-30

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1630813389

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This comprehensive resource demonstrates how wireless sensor network (WSN) systems, a key element of the Internet of Things (IoT), are designed and evaluated to solve problems associated with autonomous sensing systems. Functional blocks that form WSN-based systems are described, chapter by chapter, providing the reader with a progressive learning path through all aspects of designing remote sensing capabilities using a WSN-based system. The development and a full description of fundamental performance equations and technological solutions required by these real-time systems are included. This book explores the objectives and goals associated with tactical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (T-ISR) missions. Readers gain insight into the correlation between fine-grained sensor resolution associated with WSN-based system complexities and the difficult requirements associated with T-ISR missions. The book demonstrates how to wield emergent technologies to arrive at reliable and robust wireless networking for T-ISR and associated tasks using low-cost, low-power persistent sensor nodes. WSN is broken down into constituent subsystems, key components, functional descriptions, and attendant mathematical descriptions. This resource explains how the design of each element can be approached and successfully integrated into a viable and responsive sensor system that is autonomous, adaptable to mission objectives and environments, and deployable worldwide. It also provides examples of what not to do based on lessons learned from past (and current) systems that failed to provide end users with the required information. Chapters are linked together, in order of system assembly (concepts to operation), to provide the reader with a full toolset that can help deliver versatility in design decisions, solutions, and understanding of such systems, end to end.


Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Tarek Abdelzaher

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-24

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 3319155822

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12 European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2015, held in Porto, Portugal, in February 2015. The 14 full papers and 9 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They cover a wide range of topics grouped into five sessions: services and applications, mobility and delay-tolerance, routing and data dissemination, and human-centric sensing.


Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks

Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Sudip Misra

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-05-29

Total Pages: 725

ISBN-13: 1848822189

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Overview and Goals Wireless communication technologies are undergoing rapid advancements. The last few years have experienced a steep growth in research in the area of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). In WSNs, communication takes place with the help of spatially distributedautonomoussensornodesequippedtosensespeci?cinformation. WSNs, especially the ones that have gained much popularity in the recent years, are, ty- cally, ad hoc in nature and they inherit many characteristics/features of wireless ad hoc networks such as the ability for infrastructure-less setup, minimal or no reliance on network planning, and the ability of the nodes to self-organize and self-con?gure without the involvement of a centralized network manager, router, access point, or a switch. These features help to set up WSNs fast in situations where there is no existing network setup or in times when setting up a ?xed infrastructure network is considered infeasible, for example, in times of emergency or during relief - erations. WSNs ?nd a variety of applications in both the military and the civilian population worldwide such as in cases of enemy intrusion in the battle?eld, object tracking, habitat monitoring, patient monitoring, ?re detection, and so on. Even though sensor networks have emerged to be attractive and they hold great promises for our future, there are several challenges that need to be addressed. Some of the well-known challenges are attributed to issues relating to coverage and deployment, scalability, quality-of-service, size, computational power, energy ef?ciency, and security.


Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks

Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Pedro José Marron

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-12-07

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 3642175201

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Annotation. This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks, REALWSN 2010, held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in December 2010. The 11 full papers and the 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on applications; OS support and programming; communication & MAC; and poster and demonstration abstracts.


Wireless Sensor Networks - Design, Applications and Challenges

Wireless Sensor Networks - Design, Applications and Challenges

Author: Jaydip Sen

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-10-18

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 1803554533

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In the current era of pervasive computing and the Internet of Things (IoT), where technology seamlessly integrates into our environment and everyday objects, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) will play increasingly critical roles in several applications and use cases. WSNs find diverse applications in the real world, including monitoring pollution levels in the environment and soil moisture for agriculture, as well as monitoring healthcare patients, traffic, and more. However, the design, optimization, and deployment of such networks face several challenges, including robust architectural design for complex applications, efficient routing, security and privacy of computing and communication, delay minimization, fault tolerance, and maintaining the quality of service in real-time applications. This book presents cutting-edge research and innovative applications in WSNs in various areas such as key management and security, efficiency in routing, machine learning models for dynamic adaptation, and temperature sensing. It is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, practitioners, and graduate and doctoral students.


Nature Inspired Computing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Nature Inspired Computing for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author: Debashis De

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-02-01

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9811521255

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This book presents nature inspired computing applications for the wireless sensor network (WSN). Although the use of WSN is increasing rapidly, it has a number of limitations in the context of battery issue, distraction, low communication speed, and security. This means there is a need for innovative intelligent algorithms to address these issues.The book is divided into three sections and also includes an introductory chapter providing an overview of WSN and its various applications and algorithms as well as the associated challenges. Section 1 describes bio-inspired optimization algorithms, such as genetic algorithms (GA), artificial neural networks (ANN) and artificial immune systems (AIS) in the contexts of fault analysis and diagnosis, and traffic management. Section 2 highlights swarm optimization techniques, such as African buffalo optimization (ABO), particle swarm optimization (PSO), and modified swarm intelligence technique for solving the problems of routing, network parameters optimization, and energy estimation. Lastly, Section 3 explores multi-objective optimization techniques using GA, PSO, ANN, teaching–learning-based optimization (TLBO), and combinations of the algorithms presented. As such, the book provides efficient and optimal solutions for WSN problems based on nature-inspired algorithms.