Handbook of Research on Developments and Trends in Wireless Sensor Networks: From Principle to Practice - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1615207015 ISBN 13: 9781615207015

Publisher: Information Science Reference, 2010

Synopsis

As wireless sensor networks (WSNs) appear in many promising applications by deployment over various geographical areas such as infrastructure protection, scientific exploration, military surveillance, and smart environments, it is essential for a resource to address their current advancements. The Handbook of Research on Developments and Trends in Wireless Sensor Networks: From Principle to Practice provides state-of-the-art research describing the progression, implementation, issues, and trends in the rapidly changing world of WSNs. This defining body of innovative findings features the latest developments and studies of wireless senor networks in order to encourage new breakthroughs in this exciting technology.

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About the Author

Hai Jin is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He is now the Dean of School of Computer Science and Technology at HUST. He received his Ph.D. in computer engineering from HUST in 1994. In 1996, he was awarded German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) fellowship for visiting the Technical University of Chemnitz in Germany. He worked for the University of Hong Kong between 1998 and 2000 and participated in the HKU Cluster project. He worked as a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California between 1999 and 2000. He is the chief scientist of the largest grid computing project, ChinaGrid, in China. Dr. Jin is a senior member of IEEE and member of ACM. He is the member of Grid Forum Steering Group (GFSG). His research interests include computer architecture, cluster computing and grid computing, virtualization technology, peer-to-peer computing, network storage, network security.

Wenbin Jiang is an Associate Professor at the School of Computer Science and Technology of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in China. He received his Ph.D. in information and communication engineering from HUST in 2004. His research interests focus on Ubiquitous computing, P2P computing, Multimedia, computing system virtualization, etc. He has published about 30 papers. The projects that he has taken part in include National Science & Technology Pillar Program, 973 Plans, NFC project, etc. He is also a member of the creation group of the Natural Science Fund of Hubei. From 2005.12-2006.1, he has been to Aizu University for VLIW research. He has been the PC chairs, Publicity chairs, publication chairs, PC members of more than 40 international conferences including MUE 09, AINA 08, GPC 08, NPC 07, etc. He is a member of IEEE.

Edition details

• Publisher: Information Science Reference
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1615207015
• ISBN 13: 9781615207015
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 534
• Editor: Jin Hai, Jiang Wenbin