Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have been primarily introduced for defense application, with an objective of monitoring enemy’s activities without any human intervention, using a large number of wireless sensor nodes (SNs) and a Base Station (BS) or a sink to collect information from all SNs. WSNs can be considered as a special case of ad hoc networks with reduced or no mobility, and are known as “data centric”. In recent years, advances in miniaturization, low-power circuit design, improved low cost, and small-size batteries have made a new technological vision possible for numerous civilian applications. The NSF considers a wireless sensor network (WSN) as “the next generation of the information technology revolution”. A SN typically combines wireless radio transmitter-receiver (usually known as transceiver) and limited computation facilities with sensing of some physical phenomenon using different types of transducers.

Biography: Dharma P. Agrawal is the Ohio Board of Regents Distinguished Professor and the founding director for the Center for Distributed and Mobile Computing in the School of Computing Sciences and Informatics. His current research interests include resource allocation in wireless mesh networks, query processing and secured communication in sensor networks, environmental monitoring using sensor networks, and effective traffic handling in integrated wireless networks. His recent contribution in the form of a co-authored introductory text book on Wireless and Mobile Computing has been widely accepted throughout the world and third edition has just been published. The book has been has been reprinted both in China and India and translated in to Korean and Chinese languages. His co-authored book on Ad hoc and Sensor Networks, 2nd edition, has been published in spring of 2011. A co-edited book entitled, Encyclopedia on Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, has been published by the World Scientific and co-authored books entitled Wireless Sensor Networks: Deployment Alternatives and Analytical Modeling, and Innovative Approaches to Spectrum Selection, Sensing, On-Demand Medium Access in Heterogeneous Multihop Networks, and Sharing in Cognitive Radio Networks have being published by Lambert Academic.

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