Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Management, Performance, and Applications (Hardcover)

Although wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been employed across a wide range of applications, there are very few books that emphasize the algorithm description, performance analysis, and applications of network management techniques in WSNs. Filling this need, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks: Management, Performance, and Applications summarizes not only traditional and classical network management techniques, but also state-of-the-art techniques in this area.

The articles presented are expository, but scholarly in nature, including the appropriate history background, a review of current thinking on the topic, and a discussion of unsolved problems. The book is organized into three sections. Section I introduces the basic concepts of WSNs and their applications, followed by the summarization of the network management techniques used in WSNs.

Section II begins by examining virtual backbone-based network management techniques. It points out some of the drawbacks in classical and existing methods and proposes several new network management techniques for WSNs that can address the shortcomings of existing methods. Each chapter in this section examines a new network management technique and includes an introduction, literature review, network model, algorithm description, theoretical analysis, and conclusion.

Section III applies proposed new techniques to some important applications in WSNs including routing, data collection, data aggregation, and query processing. It also conducts simulations to verify the performance of the proposed techniques. Each chapter in this section examines a particular application using the following structure: brief application overview, application design and implementation, performance analysis, simulation settings, and comments for different test cases/scenario configurations.

儘管無線感測網路（WSNs）已被廣泛應用於各種應用領域，但很少有書籍強調WSNs中的網路管理技術的演算法描述、性能分析和應用。為了填補這一需求，《無線自組網和感測網路：管理、性能和應用》不僅總結了傳統和經典的網路管理技術，還介紹了這一領域的最新技術。

這些文章是解說性的，但具有學術性質，包括相應的歷史背景、對該主題的當前思考的回顧以及對未解決問題的討論。該書分為三個部分。第一部分介紹了WSNs的基本概念及其應用，然後總結了在WSNs中使用的網路管理技術。

第二部分首先檢視基於虛擬骨幹的網路管理技術。它指出了傳統和現有方法的一些缺點，並提出了幾種新的WSNs網路管理技術，可以解決現有方法的缺點。本部分的每一章節都檢視一種新的網路管理技術，包括介紹、文獻回顧、網路模型、演算法描述、理論分析和結論。

第三部分將提出的新技術應用於WSNs中的一些重要應用，包括路由、數據收集、數據聚合和查詢處理。它還進行模擬以驗證所提出技術的性能。本部分的每一章節都使用以下結構檢視特定應用：簡要應用概述、應用設計和實施、性能分析、模擬設置以及不同測試案例/場景配置的評論。