Mobile, Wireless, and Sensor Networks: Technology, Applications, and Future Directions

This publication represents the best thinking and solutions to a myriad of contemporary issues in wireless networks. Coverage includes wireless LANs, multihop wireless networks, and sensor networks. Readers are provided with insightful guidance in tackling such issues as architecture, protocols, modeling, analysis, and solutions. The book also highlights economic issues, market trends, emerging, cutting-edge applications, and new paradigms, such as middleware for RFID, smart home design, and "on-demand business" in the context of pervasive computing.

Mobile, Wireless, and Sensor Networks is divided into three distinct parts:
* Recent Advances in Wireless LANs and Multihop Wireless Networks
* Recent Advances and Research in Sensor Networks
* Middleware, Applications, and New Paradigms

In developing this collected work, the editors have emphasized two objectives:
* Helping readers bridge the gap and understand the relationship between practice and theory
* Helping readers bridge the gap and understand the relationships and common links among different types of wireless networks

Chapters are written by an international team of researchers and practitioners who are experts and trendsetters in their fields. Contributions represent both industry and academia, including IBM, National University of Singapore, Panasonic, Intel, and Seoul National University.

Students, researchers, and practitioners who need to stay abreast of new research and take advantage of the latest techniques in wireless communications will find this publication indispensable. Mobile, Wireless, and Sensor Networks provides a clear sense of where the industry is now, what challenges it faces, and where it is heading.

A. ANANDA, PhD, is Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. He has published more than eighty technical papers and is cofounder of Innvo Systems Pte Ltd.

MUN CHOON CHAN, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. He has published more than twenty technical papers and holds four patents.

WEI TSANG OOI, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore. His research interests focus on multimedia and distributed applications.