Fundamentals of Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice

The anatomy of wireless sensor networks provides readers with an in-depth discussion of what wireless sensor networks are, their practical applications and their anatomy. The anatomy of wireless sensor networks will be explained using a multidimensional approach. The first dimension focuses on wireless sensor nodes. The second dimension focuses on the networking aspect of wsns and offers a comparison with the osi model. The layers discussed within the 'networking' section include the physical layer, the medium access layer, the network layer, the transportation layer and the application layer. The third dimension addresses the management aspect at various layers, focusing on power management, mobility management, time synchronisation, task management and security about the series editors preface part one: introduction 1 motivation for a network of wireless sensor nodes 1.1 definitions and background 1.2 challenges and constraints 2 applications 2.1 structural health monitoring 2.2 traffic control 2.3 health care 2.4 pipeline monitoring 2.5 precision agriculture 2.6 active volcano 2.7 underground mining 3 node architecture 3.1 the sensing subsystem 3.2 the processor subsystem 3.3 communication interfaces 3.4 prototypes 4 operating systems 4.1 functional aspects 4.2 nonfunctional aspects 4.3 prototypes 4.4 evaluation part two: basic architectural framework 5 physical layer 5.1 basic components 5.2 source encoding 5.3 channel encoding 5.4 modulation 6 medium access control 6.1 overview 6.2 wireless mac protocols 6.3 characteristics of mac protocols in sensor networks 6.4 contention-free mac protocols 6.5 contention-based mac protocols 6.6 hybrid mac protocols 6.7 summary 7 network layer 7.1 overview 7.2 routing metrics 7.3 flooding and gossiping 7.4 data-centric routing 7.5 proactive routing 7.6 on-demand routing 7.7 hierarchical routing 7.8 location-based routing 7.