November 2006
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
16h 37m
English
Self-organizing sensor networks hold the potential to revolutionize many segments of public security, environmental monitoring, and manufacturing. Sensors can be networked to form a network to enhance sensing capability. Like a computer network, a sensor network has a packet with a header flowing in a network of nodes (sensor nodes). This chapter presents the architectures and protocols of such networks, discussing the following topics:
• Sensor networks and protocol structures
• Case study: Simulation of a sensor network
We begin with an overview of sensor networks and explain some popular applications. We ...
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