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.
