Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

by Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas
Released July 2004
Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
ISBN: 9780080521725

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Book description

Information processing in sensor networks is a rapidly emerging area of computer science and electrical engineering research. Because of advances in micro-sensors, wireless networking and embedded processing, ad hoc networks of sensor are becoming increasingly available for commercial, military, and homeland security applications. Examples include monitoring (e.g., traffic, habitat, security), industrail sensing and diagnostics (e.g., factory, appliances), infrastructures (i.e., power grid, water distribution, waste disposal) and battle awareness (e.g., multi-target tracking). This book introduces practitioners to the fundamental issues and technology constraints concerning various aspects of sensor networks such as information organization, querying, routing, and self-organization using concrete examples and does so by using concrete examples from current research and implementation efforts.
  • Written for practitioners, researchers, and students and relevant to all application areas, including environmental monitoring, industrial sensing and diagnostics, automotive and transportation, security and surveillance, military and battlefield uses, and large-scale infrastructural maintenance
  • Skillfully integrates the many disciplines at work in wireless sensor network design: signal processing and estimation, communication theory and protocols, distributed algorithms and databases, probabilistic reasoning, energy-aware computing, design methodologies, evaluation metrics, and more
  • Demonstrates how querying, data routing, and network self-organization can support high-level information-processing tasks

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents (1/3)
  5. Contents (2/3)
  6. Contents (3/3)
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction
    1. 1.1 Unique Constraints and Challenges
    2. 1.2 Advantages of Sensor Networks
    3. 1.3 Sensor Network Applications (1/2)
    4. 1.3 Sensor Network Applications (2/2)
    5. 1.4 Collaborative Processing
    6. 1.5 Key Definitions of Sensor Networks
    7. 1.6 The Rest of The Book
  8. Chapter 2. Canonical Roblem Localization and Tracking
    1. 2.1 A Tracking Scenario
    2. 2.2 Problem Formulation (1/3)
    3. 2.2 Problem Formulation (2/3)
    4. 2.2 Problem Formulation (3/3)
    5. 2.3 Distributed Representation and Inference of States (1/2)
    6. 2.3 Distributed Representation and Inference of States (2/2)
    7. 2.4 Tracking Multiple Objects (1/2)
    8. 2.4 Tracking Multiple Objects (2/2)
    9. 2.5 Sensor Models (1/2)
    10. 2.5 Sensor Models (2/2)
    11. 2.6 Performance Comparison and Metrics
    12. 2.7 Summary
  9. Chapter 3. Networking Sensors
    1. 3.1 Key Assumptions
    2. 3.2 Medium Access Control
    3. 3.3 General Issues
    4. 3.4 Geographic, Energy-Aware Routing (1/5)
    5. 3.4 Geographic, Energy-Aware Routing (2/5)
    6. 3.4 Geographic, Energy-Aware Routing (3/5)
    7. 3.4 Geographic, Energy-Aware Routing (4/5)
    8. 3.4 Geographic, Energy-Aware Routing (5/5)
    9. 3.5 Attribute-Based Routing (1/2)
    10. 3.5 Attribute-Based Routing (2/2)
    11. 3.6 Summary
  10. Chapter 4. Infrastructure Establishment
    1. 4.1 Topology Control
    2. 4.2 Clustering
    3. 4.3 Time Synchronization (1/2)
    4. 4.3 Time Synchronization (2/2)
    5. 4.4 Localization And Localization Services (1/3)
    6. 4.4 Localization And Localization Services (2/3)
    7. 4.4 Localization And Localization Services (3/3)
    8. 4.5 Summary
  11. Chapter 5. Sensor Tasking and Control
    1. 5.1 Task-Driven Sensing
    2. 5.2 Roles of Sensor Nodes and Utilities
    3. 5.3 Information-Based Sensor Tasking (1/5)
    4. 5.3 Information-Based Sensor Tasking (2/5)
    5. 5.3 Information-Based Sensor Tasking (3/5)
    6. 5.3 Information-Based Sensor Tasking (4/5)
    7. 5.3 Information-Based Sensor Tasking (5/5)
    8. 5.4 Joint Routing and Information Aggregation (1/4)
    9. 5.4 Joint Routing and Information Aggregation (2/4)
    10. 5.4 Joint Routing and Information Aggregation (3/4)
    11. 5.4 Joint Routing and Information Aggregation (4/4)
    12. 5.5 Summary
  12. Chapter 6. Sensor Network Databases
    1. 6.1 Sensor Database Challenges
    2. 6.2 Querying the Physical Environment
    3. 6.3 Query Interfaces
    4. 6.4 High-Level Database Organization
    5. 6.5 In-Network Aggregation (1/2)
    6. 6.5 In-Network Aggregation (2/2)
    7. 6.6 Data-Centric Storage
    8. 6.7 Data Indices and Range Queries (1/2)
    9. 6.7 Data Indices and Range Queries (2/2)
    10. 6.8 Distributed Hierarchical Aggregation (1/2)
    11. 6.8 Distributed Hierarchical Aggregation (2/2)
    12. 6.9 Temporal Data
    13. 6.10 Summary
  13. Chapter 7. Sensor Network Platforms and Tools
    1. 7.1 Sensor Node Hardware
    2. 7.2 Sensor Network Programming Challenges
    3. 7.3 Node-Level Software Platforms (1/4)
    4. 7.3 Node-Level Software Platforms (2/4)
    5. 7.3 Node-Level Software Platforms (3/4)
    6. 7.3 Node-Level Software Platforms (4/4)
    7. 7.4 Node-Level Simulators (1/2)
    8. 7.4 Node-Level Simulators (2/2)
    9. 7.5 Programming Beyond Individual Nodes State-Centric Programming (1/3)
    10. 7.5 Programming Beyond Individual Nodes State-Centric Programming (2/3)
    11. 7.5 Programming Beyond Individual Nodes State-Centric Programming (3/3)
    12. 7.6 Summary
  14. Chapter 8. Applications and Future Directions
    1. 8.1 A Summary of the Book
    2. 8.2 Emerging Applications (1/2)
    3. 8.2 Emerging Applications (2/2)
    4. 8.3 Future Research Directions
    5. 8.4 Conclusion
  15. Appendix A. Optimal Estimator Design
  16. Appendix B. Particle Filter
  17. Appendix C. Information Utility Measures (1/2)
  18. Appendix C. Information Utility Measures (2/2)
  19. Appendix D. Sample Sensor Selection Criteria
  20. Bibliography (1/5)
  21. Bibliography (2/5)
  22. Bibliography (3/5)
  23. Bibliography (4/5)
  24. Bibliography (5/5)
  25. Index (1/3)
  26. Index (2/3)
  27. Index (3/3)

Product information

  • Title: Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Author(s): Feng Zhao, Leonidas Guibas
  • Release date: July 2004
  • Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
  • ISBN: 9780080521725