Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Networks
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10.1007/978-3-319-46769-6
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2016
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R. Selmic;V. Phoha;Abdul Serwadda
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作者:
R. Selmic;V. Phoha;Abdul Serwadda
Sensors represent a basic building block of technology systems we depend much on in our daily activities such as mobile phones, smart watches, smart cars, home appliances, etc. To date Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) represent perhaps the most widely deployed and highly explored networks that use sensors as part of their systems. It is through such a network that sensors communicate, share and fuse information, and thus provide foundations for applications such as large scale monitoring, surveillance, home automation, etc. With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and wearable devices embedded with sensors, new and exciting applications of WSNs have emerged. We expect a greater convergence of WSNs with these exciting new and emerging technologies such as the IoT. Through this book, we not only present a structural treatment of the building blocks of WSNs, which include hardware and protocols architectures, but we also present systems-level view of how WSNs operate including security, coverage and connectivity, and localization and tracking. One can use these blocks to understand and build complex applications or pursue research in yet open research problems. The areas are wide: how one may deploy the wireless sensor nodes? How sensor nodes within the wireless network communicate with each other? What is their architecture? What are the security issues? And many more questions and their answers are provided for general engineering and science audience. The purpose of writing this book is to give a systematic treatment of foundational principles of WSNs. We believe that this treatment provides tools to build or program specialized applications and conduct research in advanced topics of WSNs. Since each of us has academic experiences, we present the material from a pedagogical view with each chapter providing a list of references and a list of short questions and exercises. The field is growing at such rapid pace that it is impossible to cover all new developments; therefore, each chapter provides information with a balance towards pedagogy, research advances, and an enough introduction of important concepts, such that an interested reader should she be interested to explore further can then refer to cited papers in the references. vii