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Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks: Advanced Lectures

By Dorothea Wagner , Hans-Joachim Hof (auth.) , Roger Wattenhofer (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year
2007
ISBN
354074990X, 9783540749905
DOI
10.1007/978-3-540-74991-2
Open Library ID
OL18294151M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4433834 bytes)
Series
Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4621 : Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues
Edition
1
Pages
418\417
Library
Kolxo3
Time added
2011-02-14 12:09:19
Computer Communication Networks; Software EngineerNetworks

Description

Thousands of mini computers (comparable to a stick of chewing gum in size), equipped with sensors,are deployed in some terrain or other. After activation thesensorsformaself-organizednetworkandprovidedata,forexampleabout a forthcoming earthquake. The trend towards wireless communication increasingly a?ects electronic devices in almost every sphere of life. Conventional wireless networks rely on infrastructure such as base stations; mobile devices interact with these base stations in a client/server fashion. In contrast, current research is focusing on networks that are completely unstructured, but are nevertheless able to communicate (via several hops) with each other, despite the low coverage of their antennas. Such systems are called sensor orad hoc networks, depending on the point of view and the application. Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have gained an incredible research momentum.Computerscientistsandengineersofall?avorsareembracingthe area. Sensor networks have been adopted by researchers in many ?elds: from hardware technology to operating systems, from antenna design to databases, from information theory to networking, from graph theory to computational geometry.

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