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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 4621)
Part of the book sub series: Theoretical Computer Science and General Issues (LNTCS)
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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 the sensors form a self-organized network and provide data, for example about a forthcoming earthquake. The trend towards wireless communication increasingly affects 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 or ad hoc networks, depending on the point of view and the application. Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have gained an incredible research momentum. Computer scientists and engineers of all flavors are embracing the area. Sensor networks have been adopted by researchers in many fields: 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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks
Book Subtitle: Advanced Lectures
Editors: Dorothea Wagner, Roger Wattenhofer
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74991-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-74990-5Published: 18 September 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-74991-2Published: 27 September 2007
Series ISSN: 0302-9743
Series E-ISSN: 1611-3349
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 418
Topics: Computer Communication Networks, Software Engineering, Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity, Information Storage and Retrieval, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Communications Engineering, Networks