Springer Scalable Infrastructure for Distributed Sensor Networks

Product Description This is the only book to cover infrastructure aspects of sensor networks in a comprehensive fashion. The only other books on sensor networks do not cover this topic or do so only superficially as part of a less-focussed multi-authored treatment. From the Back Cover Wireless sensor networks is a rapidly developing area. New applications are emerging and breakthroughs are being made in solving the underlying scientific problems. The effectiveness of sensor networks depends largely on deployment strategies, self-organization capabilities, routing and information dissemination protocols, all of which contribute to the underlying network infrastructure. Infrastructure Design for Sensor Networks is the first book to address basic infrastructure issues in wireless sensor networks. The book tackles the problems that must be addressed before sensors are deployed for surveillance, tracking, and other monitoring applications and the solutions described are scalable for large and dense sensor networks. Included in a comprehensive treatment of the topic are:techniques for deterministic sensor deployment for applications such as smart buildings and aircraft structural monitoring; techniques for ad hoc deployment for sensors, e.g., for military applications, determining, and environmental monitoring in inhospitable terrain; self organization through self-configuration and adaptive reconfiguration when a large numbers of sensors are deployed in an ad hoc fashion; energy-efficient information dissemination based on the new concept of virtual grids; and infrastructure issues in energy-efficient data routing. Infrastructure Design for Sensor Networks will be an invaluable reference source for researchers and  graduate students on this topical and important subject. About the Author Krishnendu Chakrabarty is an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. He has co-authored two books, edited a third book, and published over 150 papers  in archival journals and refereed conference proceedings. S. S. Iyengar (AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow, ACM Fellow) is the Roy Paul Daniels Professor of Computer Science and Chairman of the Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. He is the author/co-author of 13 books and he has published more than 280 papers in journals and refereed conference proceedings. He has given more than 50 plenary talks and invited lectures.He is the Editor-in-Chief of the  International  Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (Taylor-Francis/CRC Press).