The third edition of this hands-on textbook pursues the focus on the principles of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), their applications, their protocols and standards, and their analysis and test tools; a meticulous care has been accorded to the definitions and terminology. To make WSNs felt and seen, the adopted technologies as well as their manufacturers are presented in detail. In introductory computer networking books, chapters sequencing follows the bottom up or top down architecture of the seven layers protocol. This book is some more steps after, both horizontally and vertically, the view and understanding are getting clearer, chapters ordering is based on topics significance to the elaboration of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) concepts and issues.
This book is intended for a wide audience, it is meant to be help and motivate, for both the senior undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and practitioners; concepts and WSNs related applications are laid out, research and practical issues are backed by appropriate literature, and new trends are put under focus. For senior undergraduate students, it familiarizes with conceptual foundations, applications and practical projects implementations. For graduate students and researchers, energy-efficient routing protocols, transport layer protocols and cross-layering protocols approach are presented. Testbeds and simulators provide a must follow emphasis on the analysis methods and tools for WSNs. For practitioners, besides applications and deployment, the manufacturers and components of WSNs at several platforms and testbeds are fully explored.
Dr. Hossam M.A. Fahmy is a Professor of Computer Engineering, served as Chair of the Computer Engineering Systems Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt from 2006-2008, and from 2010-2012. He participates in many academic activities in Egypt and abroad. Prof. Fahmy is recipient of Ain Shams University Appreciation Award in Engineering Sciences. He has published and refereed extensively in Springer, Elsevier and IEEE journals and in several refereed international conferences. His teaching and research areas are focused on Computer Networks, MANETs, WSNs, VANETs, Fault Tolerance, Software and Web Engineering. He authored “Wireless Sensor Networks: Concepts, Applications, Experimentation and Analysis” book published by Springer, first edition 2016, and in 2021 its second edition titled “Concepts, Applications, Experimentation and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks”, and "Wireless Sensor Networks: Energy Harvesting and Management Techniques for Research and Industry", book published by Springer, 2020.
Professor Fahmy founded and chaired the IEEE International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES) from 2006-2008, and from 2010 -2013. He is a Senior IEEE member, IEEE Region 8 Distinguished Visitor (2013-2015) and (2015-2018), Chair of the Distinguished Visitor Committee of the IEEE Computer Society. He speaks Arabic, French and English.
