August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
444 pages
14h 29m
English
Yi Qian
Prashant Krishnamurthy
David Tipper
Recent trends indicate that the next-generation wireless networks will consist of hybrid wireless access networks and wireless sensor networks (WSNs) [1–3]. The wireless access networks will be hybrid, i.e., they will consist of wide-area mobile data services providing extensive coverage but lower data rates and wireless local area networks (WLANs) for covering local area hot spots with much higher data rates [2]. Wireless ad hoc connections can assist with missing connections between a wireless device and the rest of a network [1, 3]. WSNs are becoming increasingly relevant for sensing physical phenomenon for a variety of applications ...
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