Ammari H. The Art Of Wireless Sensor Networks. Vol 2...2014

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This second volume, entitled ‘‘The Art of Wireless Sensor Networks: Advanced Topics and Applications’’, presents a collection of recent advances in both theory and application of wireless sensor networks. Specifically, it starts with a stochastic modeling framework aimed at better understanding and evaluating key QoS metrics of a wireless sensor network, such as packet delivery delay, energy consumption, and lifetime. This is followed by a collection of chapters that discuss the state-of-the-art in various theoretical aspects and enabling technologies critical to sensor networking. These chapters build on an increasing volume of literature but also introduce new concepts. They are thus not only wonderful references but also good sources of new ideas. These include advanced topics in sensing coverage (barrier, spatial and temporal), indoor tracking, real-time estimation, and target counting. It also includes a set of chapters dedicated to 3D sensor networks and research challenges that arise in coverage, connectivity, localization, topology control, and routing. The Part III of this volume consists of chapters that discuss emerging applications that are beginning to have significant scientific and societal impact. These include underground sensing, underwater sensing, multimedia sensing, and body area sensing (its analysis as well as its use in activity and gesture recognition). This part ends with a few interesting chapters on social sensing: the sensing of, for, and within social/human networks