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Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks
29Feb2008 Filed under: Architectural Standards Author: admin
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Wireless sensor networks will revolutionise applications such as environmental monitoring, home automation, and logistics. 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. Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks: Covers architectures and communications protocols in detail, illustrating solutions with practical implementation examples and case studies. Provides an understanding of mutual relationships and dependencies between different protocols and architectural decisions. Offers an in-depth investigation of relevant protocol mechanisms. Shows which protocols are suitable for which tasks within a wireless sensor network and in which circumstances they perform efficiently. 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.
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02月 29th, 2008 at 1:13 am
By B. Nicodemus (North Wales, PA United States)
This is a significant reference book. It provides a very thorough walk through of all wireless sensor communications issues and protocols. If you ignore all the appendices, bibliography, etc. it clocks in a ~430 pages. It uses a fairly tiny ~10-point font, making it a bit tough to read, which is a very minor quibble. I only point that out because if they had used a more readable 11-12 point font, this book would be well over 600+ pages, which just emphasizes how much material the book covers. They generally walk through high level concepts, then drill into issues and tradeoff considerations, followed by a further drilldown into specific protocols and examples. A very solid structured approach. There is a good bit of math in the book making it highly suitable for a textbook; indeed a graduate course is stated as a target audience. There is enough meat here that you could just skip that and still learn a lot. The writing is a bit on the dry/academic side, but coherent. A lot of tables with sample data points showing cross sections of different products and how they perform; very useful in showing trends and/or the wide range of solutions and tradeoff decisions designers make in their prducts. One thing to be aware of is that sensor OSs and internal sensor hardware is generally out of scope; the focus is on communications and associated considerations and protocols. That said, a good overview of WSN node hardware and operating system considerations is provided to help put communications issues in context. Bottom line: Excellent, comprehensive reference.