Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing And Communications Perspectives

This book focuses on theoretical aspects of wireless sensor networks, aiming at providing signal processing and communication perspectives in the design of large-scale sensor networks. Emphasis is on the fundamental properties of large scale sensor networks, distributed signal processing and communication algorithms, and novel cross-layer design paradigms for sensor networking. Table of contents fundamental properties and limits. Information-theoretic bounds on sensor network performance. In-network information processing in wireless sensor networks. The sensing capacity of sensor networks. Law of sensor network lifetime and its applications. Detection in sensor networks. Distributed estimation under bandwidth and energy constraints. Distributed learning in wireless sensor networks. Graphical models and fusion in sensor networks. Randomized cooperative transmission in large-scale sensor networks. Application dependent shortest path routing in ad-hoc sensor networks.