Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the most important issues and questions that have to be addressed in a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor networks combine current research trends from a number of different disciplines – hardware design, information & signal processing, and communication networks to name but a few. This single resource makes the crucial aspects of these research fields accessible to the reader. The authors give an overview of the current state-of-the-art and put all the individual solutions into perspective with each other.

This singular text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers, with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks.

TABLE OF CONTENT:
Chapter 01 - Introduction
Chapter 02 - Single node architecture
Chapter 03 - Network architecture
Chapter 04 - Physical Layer
Chapter 05 - MAC Protocols 133
Chapter 06 - Link Layer Protocols
Chapter 07 - Naming and Addressing
Chapter 08 - Time Synchronization
Chapter 09 - Localization and Positioning
Chapter 10 - Topology control 295
Chapter 11 - Routing protocols
Chapter 12 - Data-centric and content-based networking 395
Chapter 13 - Transport Layer and Quality of Service
Chapter 14 - Advanced application support