Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks [Hardcover]

Holger Karl (Author), Andreas Willig (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 27, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0470095105 | ISBN-13: 978-0470095102 | Edition: 1

Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks!

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks.

The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into perspective with one and other.  Numerous practical examples, case studies and illustrations demonstrate the theory, techniques and results presented.  The clear chapter structure, listing learning objectives, outline and summarizing key points, help guide the reader expertly through the material.

 Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks:            

• Covers architecture and communications protocols in detail with practical implementation examples and case studies.
• Provides an understanding of mutual relationships and dependencies between different protocols and architectural decisions.
• Offers an in-depth investigation of relevant protocol mechanisms. 
• Shows which protocols are suitable for which tasks within a wireless sensor network and in which circumstances they perform efficiently. 
• Features an extensive website with the bibliography, PowerPoint slides, additional exercises and worked solutions.

This text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks. 

Check out www.wiley.com/go/wsn for accompanying course material!

"I am deeply impressed by the book of Karl & Willig. It is by far the most complete source for wireless sensor networks...The book covers almost all topics related to sensor networks, gives an amazing number of references, and, thus, is the perfect source for students, teachers, and researchers. Throughout the book the reader will find high quality text, figures, formulas, comparisons etc. - all you need for a sound basis to start sensor network research."

Prof. Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin

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"I am deeply impressed by the book of Karl & Willig. It is by far the most complete source for wireless sensor networks...The book covers almost all topics related to sensor networks, gives an amazing number of references, and, thus, is the perfect source for students, teachers, and researchers. Throughout the book the reader will find high quality text, figures, formulas, comparisons etc. - all you need for a sound basis to start sensor network research." (Prof. Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universitat Berlin, January 2006)

From the Back Cover

Wireless sensor networks will revolutionise applications such as environmental monitoring, home automation, and logistics.

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the most important issues and questions that have to be addressed in a wireless sensor network. Wireless sensor networks combine current research trends from a number of different disciplines – hardware design, information & signal processing, and communication networks to name but a few. This single resource makes the crucial aspects of these research fields accessible to the reader. The authors give an overview of the current state-of-the-art and put all the individual solutions into perspective with each other. 

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks:

• Covers architectures and communications protocols in detail, illustrating solutions with practical implementation examples and case studies.
• Provides an understanding of mutual relationships and dependencies between different protocols and architectural decisions.
• Offers an in-depth investigation of relevant protocol mechanisms.
• Shows which protocols are suitable for which tasks within a wireless sensor network and in which circumstances they perform efficiently. 

This singular text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers, with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks. 

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 526 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 27, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470095105
• ISBN-13: 978-0470095102
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,475,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and Comprehensive Reference, December 23, 2007

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This review is from: Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks (Paperback)

This is a significant reference book. It provides a very thorough walk through of all wireless sensor communications issues and protocols. If you ignore all the appendices, bibliography, etc. it clocks in a ~430 pages. It uses a fairly tiny ~10-point font, making it a bit tough to read, which is a very minor quibble. I only point that out because if they had used a more readable 11-12 point font, this book would be well over 600+ pages, which just emphasizes how much material the book covers. They generally walk through high level concepts, then drill into issues and tradeoff considerations, followed by a further drilldown into specific protocols and examples. A very solid structured approach. There is a good bit of math in the book making it highly suitable for a textbook; indeed a graduate course is stated as a target audience. There is enough meat here that you could just skip that and still learn a lot. The writing is a bit on the dry/academic side, but coherent. A lot of tables with sample data points showing cross sections of different products and how they perform; very useful in showing trends and/or the wide range of solutions and tradeoff decisions designers make in their prducts. One thing to be aware of is that sensor OSs and internal sensor hardware is generally out of scope; the focus is on communications and associated considerations and protocols. That said, a good overview of WSN node hardware and operating system considerations is provided to help put communications issues in context. Bottom line: Excellent, comprehensive reference.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for those interested in WSN, January 12, 2008

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Anton Hristozov (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks (Paperback)

I was looking for a book that covers all important aspects of wireless sensor networks. This book has a clear style and is really very comprehensive. Absolutely worth the money. I bought a used one, which was like new. After so many books in this field it is really hard to create something up to date and unique. The reference section is very rich and the curious reader can quickly find vast literature sources with excellent content. The reader needs some previous knowledge, but is absolutely not necessary to be an expert in the field. Some basic math and networking experience will help definitely, but even without that it is possible to selectively read large portions of the book. The presented theory is very accessible for EE engineers to the point where a computer scientists would be comfortable with some of it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended book, July 7, 2005

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Michael Savoric (Kaiserslautern, Germany) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks (Hardcover)

This book provides a profound and up-to-date description of wireless

sensor networks (WSNs), one of the hot topics in today's network

research area. All aspects of wireless sensor networks are

described in detail. These aspects are:

* types and capabilities of sensor nodes

* network architectures for WSNs,

* types and characteristics of layer-specific communication technics and

protocols in WSNs, including physical-layer considerations up to

application-specific support of WSNs

* applications in WSNs.

The authors do not only describe solutions for a lot of selective problems in

WSNs (the bibliography has more than 900 entries), they also consider

dependencies between these solutions and influences of these solutions on the

whole WSN.

This book is recommended for all readers who are interested in specific design

challenges and solutions for WSNs.