Wireless Sensor Networks: Principles and Practice (Hardcover)

Capable of providing a high order of spatial and effective resolution for an ever-increasing number of applications, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) still pose a few unresolved challenges and optimization problems in the design of network architectures, protocols, and algorithms.

Written by award-winning engineers whose research has been sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), IBM, and Cisco's University Research Program, Wireless Sensor Networks: Principles and Practice addresses everything product developers and technicians need to know to navigate the field in 2010. It provides an all-inclusive examination of the major WSN technology, standards, and current application topics.

Using straightforward language, the text makes complex concepts and processes easy to understand. It covers hardware design, medium access control, routing schemes, transport protocols, OS support, middleware, data management, localization, synchronization, security, actuator/underwater/video sensor networking, power control, sensor simulations, and emerging research. This authoritative resource includes a wealth of exercises, end-of-chapter reviews, detailed case studies, as well as practical sensor network design cases that touch on medical applications.

Complete with class labs that illustrate how to apply concepts to the development and application of WSNs, this book spells out the steps of design and implementation needed to address real-world challenges and optimization problems.

A CD with instructional resources, including solutions to exercises and lab materials, is available upon qualified course adoption.

無線感測網路（Wireless Sensor Networks，簡稱WSNs）在越來越多的應用中能夠提供高度的空間和有效解析度，但在網路架構、協議和演算法的設計中仍存在一些未解決的挑戰和優化問題。

本書由獲獎工程師撰寫，他們的研究得到了美國國家科學基金會（NSF）、IBM和思科的大學研究計劃的資助。《無線感測網路：原理與實踐》涵蓋了產品開發人員和技術人員在2010年需要了解的一切。它全面檢視了主要的WSN技術、標準和當前的應用主題。

本書使用簡單易懂的語言，使複雜的概念和過程易於理解。它涵蓋了硬體設計、媒介存取控制、路由方案、傳輸協議、作業系統支援、中介軟體、資料管理、定位、同步、安全、致動器/水下/視訊感測器網路、功率控制、感測器模擬和新興研究。這本權威資源包含大量的練習題、章節結束的回顧、詳細的案例研究，以及觸及醫療應用的實際感測網路設計案例。

本書還附有課堂實驗室，展示如何將概念應用於WSN的開發和應用，並詳細說明了解決現實世界挑戰和優化問題所需的設計和實施步驟。

合格的課程採用者還可以獲得一張光碟，其中包含教學資源，包括練習解答和實驗室材料。