Wireless Sensor Networks and Applications

Wireless sensor networks are currently employed in a variety of applications ranging from medical to military, and from home to industry. This book provides a reference tool for the increasing number of scientists who depend upon sensor networks in a widening variety of ways. Coverage includes network design and modeling, network management, data management, security and applications. The topic covered in each chapter receives expository as well as scholarly treatment, covering its history, reviewing state-of-the-art thinking relative to the topic, and discussing currently unsolved problems of special interest.