Includes bibliographical references and index.

• Machine generated contents note: 1.1.Wireless Sensor Networks
• 1.2.Sample Applications Around the World
• 1.3.Types of Wireless Sensor Networks
• Summary
• Further Reading
• 2.1.Hardware Components
• 2.2.Power Consumption
• 2.3.Operating Systems and Concepts
• 2.3.1.Memory Management
• 2.3.2.Interrupts
• 2.3.3.Tasks, Threads, and Events
• 2.4.Simulators
• 2.5.Communication Stack
• 2.5.1.Sensor Network Communication Stack
• 2.5.2.Protocols and Algorithms
• Anatomy of a Sensor Node: Summary
• 3.1.Radio Waves and Modulation/Demodulation
• 3.2.Properties of Wireless Communications
• 3.2.1.Interference and Noise
• 3.2.2.Hidden Terminal Problem
• 3.2.3.Exposed Terminal Problem
• 3.3.Medium Access Protocols
• 3.3.1.Design Criteria for Medium Access Protocols
• 3.3.2.Time Division Multiple Access
• 3.3.3.Carrier Sense Multiple Access
• 3.3.4.Sensor MAC
• 3.3.5.Berkeley MAC
• 3.3.6.Optimizations of B-MAC
• 3.3.7.Other Protocols and Trends
• Contents note continued: Radio Communications: Summary
• Questions and Exercises
• 4.1.Wireless Links Introduction
• 4.2.Properties of Wireless Links
• 4.2.1.Links and Geographic Distance
• 4.2.2.Asymmetric Links
• 4.2.3.Link Stability and Burstiness
• 4.3.Error Control
• 4.3.1.Backward Error Control
• 4.3.2.Forward Error Control
• 4.4.Naming and Addressing
• 4.4.1.Naming
• 4.4.2.Addressing
• 4.4.3.Assignment of Addresses and Names
• 4.4.4.Using Names and Addresses
• 4.5.Link Estimation Protocols
• 4.5.1.Design Criteria
• 4.5.2.Link Quality Based
• 4.5.3.Delivery Rate Based
• 4.5.4.Passive and Active Estimators
• 4.5.5.Collection Tree Protocol
• 4.6.Topology Control
• 4.6.1.Centralized Topology Control
• 4.6.2.Distributed Topology Control
• Link Management: Summary
• 5.1.Routing Basics
• 5.2.Routing Metrics
• 5.2.1.Location and Geographic Vicinity
• 5.2.2.Hops
• Contents note continued: 5.2.3.Number of Retransmissions
• 5.2.4.Delivery Delay
• 5.3.Routing Protocols
• 5.3.1.Full-Network Broadcast
• 5.3.2.Location-Based Routing
• 5.3.3.Directed Diffusion
• 5.3.4.Collection Tree Protocol
• 5.3.5.Zigbee
• Multi-Hop Communications: Summary
• 6.1.Clustering Techniques
• 6.1.1.Random Clustering
• 6.1.2.Nearest Sink
• 6.1.3.Geographic Clustering
• 6.1.4.Clustering Summary
• 6.2.In-Network Processing and Data Aggregation
• 6.2.1.Compression
• 6.2.2.Statistical Techniques
• 6.3.Compressive Sampling
• Data Aggregation and Clustering: Summary
• 7.1.Clocks and Delay Sources
• 7.2.Requirements and Challenges
• 7.3.Time Synchronization Protocols
• 7.3.1.Lightweight Tree Synchronization
• 7.3.2.Reference Broadcast Synchronization
• 7.3.3.No Time Protocol
• Time Synchronization: Summary
• Contents note continued: 8.1.Localization Challenges and Properties
• 8.1.1.Types of Location Information
• 8.1.2.Precision Against Accuracy
• 8.1.3.Costs
• 8.2.Pre-Deployment Schemes
• 8.3.Proximity Schemes
• 8.4.Ranging Schemes
• 8.4.1.Triangulation
• 8.4.2.Trilateration
• 8.5.Range-Based Localization
• 8.6.Range-Free Localization
• 8.6.1.Hop-Based Localization
• 8.6.2.Point in Triangle (PIT)
• Localization: Summary
• 9.1.Types of Sensors
• 9.2.Sensing Coverage
• 9.3.High-Level Sensors
• 9.4.Special Case: The Human As a Sensor
• 9.5.Actuators
• 9.6.Sensor Calibration
• 9.7.Detecting Errors
• Sensing Techniques: Summary
• 10.1.Early WSN Deployments
• 10.1.1.Murphy Loves Potatoes
• 10.1.2.Great Duck Island
• 10.2.General Problems
• 10.2.1.Node Problems
• 10.2.2.Link/Path Problems
• 10.2.3.Global Problems
• 10.3.General Testing and Validation
• 10.4.Requirements Analysis
• Contents note continued: 10.4.1.Analyzing the Environment
• 10.4.2.Analyzing Lifetime and Energy Requirements
• 10.4.3.Analyzing Required Data
• 10.4.4.Analyzing User Expectations
• 10.5.The Top-Down Design Process
• 10.5.1.The Network
• 10.5.2.The Node Neighborhood
• 10.5.3.The Node
• 10.5.4.Individual Components of the Node
• 10.6.Bottom-Up Implementation Process
• 10.6.1.Individual Node-Level Modules
• 10.6.2.The Node As an Entity
• 10.6.3.The Network As an Entity
• Designing and Deploying WSN Applications: Summary
• Further Reading.
• What are wireless sensor networks?
• Anatomy of a sensor node
• Radio communications
• Link management
• Multi-hop communications
• Data aggregation and clustering
• Time synchronization
• Localization techniques
• Sensing techniques
• Designing and deploying WSN applications.

Explores real-world wireless sensor network development, deployment, and applications The book begins with an introduction to wireless sensor networks and their fundamental concepts. Hardware components, operating systems, protocols, and algorithms that make up the anatomy of a sensor node are described in chapter two. Properties of wireless communications, medium access protocols, wireless links, and link estimation protocols are described in chapter three and chapter four. Routing basics and metrics, clustering techniques, time synchronization and localization protocols, as well as sensing techniques are introduced in chapter five to nine. The concluding chapter summarizes the learnt methods and shows how to use them to deploy real-world sensor networks in a structured way. . Presents state-of-the-art protocols and algorithms. Includes end-of-chapter summaries, exercises, and references. For students, there are hardware overviews, reading links, programming examples, and tests available at [website to follow]. For Instructors, there are PowerPoint slides and solutions available at [website to follow] This book is intended for graduate and undergraduate students interested in learning about wireless sensor networks. Only minimal experience with programming and an understanding of basic computer science concepts is necessary to understand the material included in the book. Anna Fћorster is a Professor and Head of the Sustainable Communication Networks Group at the University of Bremen, Germany. She earned her MSc in Computer Science and Aerospace Engineering from the Free University of Berlin and her PhD from the University of Lugano, Switzerland. Her main research interests lie in the area of sustainable communication networks and their applications to sustainability. Her passion is teaching these topics, both to students and the general public.