A Complete Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks from Inception to Current Trends

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the major aspects in designing, implementing, and deploying wireless sensor networks by discussing present research on WSNs and their applications in various disciplines. It familiarizes readers with the current state of WSNs and how such networks can be improved to achieve effectiveness and efficiency. It starts with a detailed introduction of wireless sensor networks and their applications and proceeds with layered architecture of WSNs. It also addresses prominent issues such as mobility, heterogeneity, fault-tolerance, intermittent connectivity, and cross layer optimization along with a number of existing solutions to stimulate future research.

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Section I INTRODUCTION AND APPLICATIONS

1 An Introduction to Wireless Sensor Networks

2 Wireless Sensor Network Applications

Section II PHYSICAL SUPPORT LAYER

3 Quality of Service-Sensitive MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks

4 Hybrid MAC for Emergency Response Wireless Sensor Networks

Section III NETWORK LAYER

5 Routing Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks

6 Routing Schemes in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks

7 Clustering in Wireless Sensor Networks

Section IV TRANSPORT LAYER

8 Transport Layer Caching in Wireless Sensor Networks

9 Congestion Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

Section V HETEROGENEOUS WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

10 Architecture, Advances, and Challenges

11 QoS Provisioning at the MAC Layer in Heterogeneous Networks

Section VI MOBILE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

12 Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks

13 Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks

14 Coverage and Connectivity in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

Section VII FAULT-TOLERANT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

15 Fault Tolerance in Wireless Sensor Networks

Section VIII CROSS-LAYER OPTIMIZATION

16 Cross-Layer Optimizations in Wireless Sensor Networks

17 Cross-Layer Quality of Service Approaches in Wireless Sensor Networks

18 Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks

Section IX INTERMITTENTLY CONNECTED DELAY TOLERANT WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS (ICDT-WSNs)

19 Data Collection in Sparse Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Nodes

20 Opportunistic Networks in Disaster Management

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Dr. Ankur Dumka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Uttarakhand, India. He has published more than 40 research papers of repute in international conferences and journals. He has written two books with international publishers and contributed more than ten book chapters. He is associated with many reputed journals in the capacity of editor and editorial board member. He is co-author of A Practical Approach to Software-Defined WAN, to be published by CRC Press in 2020.

Sandip K. Chaurasiya received his M.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, West Bengal, India. He is an assistant professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. His research interests include mobile computing, wireless communication, and wireless sensor networks.

Arindam Biswas received an M-Tech degree in Radio Physics and Electronics from the University of Calcutta, India, and a Ph.D. from NIT Durgapur, India. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Pusan National University, South Korea, with a prestigious BK21PLUS Fellowship. He was visiting professor at the Research Institute of Electronics, Shizouka University, Japan. Presently Dr. Biswas is working as an assistant professor in the School of Mines and Metallurgy at Kazi Nazrul University, Asansol, West Bengal, India. Dr. Biswas has nine years of experience in teaching, research, and administration. He has published more than 60 papers and authored five books. He has organized and chaired international conferences. His research interests are in carrier transport in low-dimensional systems and electronic devices, non-linear optical, communications, and bioinformatics.

Dr. Hardwari Lal Mandoria is a professor and the head of the department of information technology at G.B.