Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks (Computer Communications and Networks) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848002025 ISBN 13: 9781848002029

Publisher: Springer, 2008

Synopsis

Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks delivers a comprehensive review of the state of the art in the most important technological issues related to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). It covers topics such as hardware platforms, radio technologies, software technologies (including middleware), and network and deployment aspects.

This book discusses the main open issues inside each of these categories and identifies innovations considered most interesting for future research.

Features: - Hardware Platforms in WSN, - Software Technologies in SWN, - Network Aspects and Deployment in WSN, - Standards and Safety Regulation for WSN, - European Projects Related to WSN, - WSN Application Scenarios at both utility and technical levels.

Complete, cutting-edge and resulting from the work of many recognized researchers, Problem Solving for Wireless Sensor Networks is an invaluable reference for graduates and researchers, as well as practitioners.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is an area of huge research interest, attracting substantial attention from industry and academia for its enormous potential and its inherent challenges. This book delivers a comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art related to the most important technological issues in WSN.

This wide-ranging, reader-friendly text covers topics such as hardware platforms, radio technologies, software technologies (including middleware), and network and deployment aspects. It discusses the main open issues inside each of these categories, and in it identifies innovations considered most interesting for future research.

Features:

• Comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art of WSN, from hardware to applications

• Includes survey of commercial products and solutions, European projects and research papers

• Identifies the main open issues and innovations

• Covers standards and safety regulation for WSN

• Analyses several WSN application scenarios at both utility and technical levels

• Highlights the major difficulties that can arise when using WSN technologies

• Organised into self-contained chapters, allowing readers to focus on their specific interests

Complete, cutting-edge and resulting from the work of many reknown researchers, this book is an invaluable reference guide for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners who want to grasp the main technological and research challenges that drive the design and deployment of a WSN solution.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1848002025
• ISBN 13: 9781848002029
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: García-Hernando Ana-Belén, Martínez-Ortega José-Fernán, López-Navarro Juan-Manuel, Prayati Aggeliki, Redondo-López Luis