Wireless Sensor Networks ─ Current Status and Future Trends

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) utilize fast, cheap, and effective applications to imitate the human intelligence capability of sensing on a wider distributed scale. But acquiring data from the deployment area of a WSN is not always easy and multiple issues arise, including the limited resources of sensor devices run with one-time batteries. Additional WSN concerns include the external environment, routing, data aggregation, and ensuring quality of service (QoS) and security. Solutions have been developed for various types of application scenarios, but many problems still remain as open research challenges. Wireless Sensor Networks: Current Status and Future Trends covers the various issues associated with WSNs, including their structure, activities, and applications.

Bringing together the contributions of researchers and experts in the field, this book explores:

• Applications of WSNs, data-centric storage, environmental forest monitoring, and the fundamentals of wireless body area networks
• Mobile medium access control (MAC) protocols, cooperative diversity sensor systems, and WSNs operating in IEEE 802.11 networks
• Location and position estimation in WSNs, techniques used in localization algorithms, and localization schemes
• Energy-centric simulation and design space exploration
• The fundamentals of MAC protocols and specific requirements and problems
• Protocols and data gathering
• Privacy and security issues in WSNs, solutions based on watermarking, and proposed work on intrusion detection systems (IDS) in WSNs

Reviewing current trends in research and development as well as future expectations in the relevant areas, this book is a valuable reference for students, graduates, academics, researchers of computer science, and engineers, whether working in professional organizations or research institutions.

Shafiullah Khan is an assistant professor at the Institute of InformationTechnology (IIT) at the Kohat University of Science and Technology (KUST), K.P.K, Pakistan. His research interests include wireless mesh networks, ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and wireless network security. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (IJCNIS).

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Malaysia. He is also the founding head of the NDC laboratory at the Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology (KICT), IIUM. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, network security, and e-services technologies. He is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Internet and Distributed Computing Systems (IJIDCS).

Nabil Ali Alrajeh is an associate professor of medical informatics in the Biomedical Technology Department at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Alrajeh worked as a senior advisor for the Ministry of Higher Education implementing development programs including educational affairs, strategic planning, and research and innovation. Dr. Alrajeh’s research interests include e-health applications, hospital information systems, telemedicine, intelligent tutoring systems, and WSNs.