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Due to advances in semiconductors, networking, and material science technologies, it is now possible to deploy large-scale WSNs. The advancement in these technologies has not only decreased the deployment and maintenance costs of networks but has also increased the life of networks and made them more rugged.

As WSNs become more reliable with lower maintenance costs, they are being deployed and used across various sectors for multiple applications. This book discusses the applications, challenges, and design and deployment techniques of WSNs. Recently, a number of efforts, both from industry and academia have been made for the purpose of effectively deploying WSN for a variety of applications e. The power constraints of sensor devices pose many fundamental design issues in WSNs, such as coverage, connectivity and lifetime.

For example, design of an environmental monitoring WSN needs to target maintaining a satisfactory sensing coverage and transmit the required sensor data e. However, multihop transmission makes the sensors close to the BS consume more energy than other far away nodes because of packets to be relayed to the BS. Once closeby nodes use up their energy, data from far away nodes can not be transmitted to the BS directly and the network performance is heavily affected.

In this dissertation, we study different deployment strategies for WSNs. We introduce the use of some redundant nodes so that the lifetime of WSNs could be prolonged. Nonuniform deployment of WSNs is also discussed. The main idea is to deploy more nodes close to the BS so as to balance the energy consumption among all sensors. Three kinds of deployment strategies deterministic deployment, partially controlled deployment and distribution controlled deployment are studied.

We also provide a data collection protocol design to support the nonuniform deployment architecture. We also explore the future research directions related with WSN deployment strategies.

When an area of interest is inaccessible by conventional means, such a network can be deployed in ways resulting in a random distribution of the sensors.

Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks offers a probabilistic method to model and analyze these networks. The book considers the network design, coverage, target detection, localization and tracking of sensors in randomly deployed wireless networks, and proposes a stochastic model.

It quantifies the relationship between parameters of the network and its performance, and puts forward a communication protocol. The title provides analyses and formulas, giving engineering insight into randomly deployed wireless sensor networks.

Five chapters consider the analysis of coverage performance; working modes and scheduling mechanisms; the relationship between sensor behavior and network performance properties; probabilistic forwarding routing protocols; localization methods for multiple targets and target number estimation; and experiments on target localization and tracking with a Mica sensor system.

Details a probabilistic method to model and analyze randomly deployed wireless sensor networks Gives working modes and scheduling mechanisms for sensor nodes, allowing high-probability of target detection Considers the relationship between sensor behaviour and network performance and lifetime Offers probabilistic forwarding routing protocols for randomly deployed wireless sensor networks Describes a method for localizing multiple targets and estimating their number.

However, they require further efficiencies for Outdoor Environment Monitoring OEM applications due to their harsh operational conditions, huge targeted areas, limited energy budget, and required 3D setups. A fundamental issue in defeating these practical challenges is deployment planning.

The deployment plan is a key factor of many intrinsic properties of OEM networks, summarized in connectivity, lifetime, fault-tolerance, and cost-effectiveness. This book investigates the problem of WSNs deployments that address these properties in order to overcome the unique challenges and circumstances in OEM applications.

This kind of network has advantages in several applications such as detection of forest fire, environmental monitoring, etc. Many research efforts are conducted in wireless sensor networks. The power constraints of sensor devices define many fundamental design issues in WSNs, such as coverage, connectivity and lifetime. In this book, we study different deployment strategies for WSNs.

A wireless sensor system has been developed and is introduced in the end to give some flavor of the real world applications. It also relays data for other sensors. While sensing workload is the same among sensors, relaying workload differs. Sensors closer to the data sink carry more data traffic.

This becomes more prominent as the network scales up. The drawback of this is that nodes in the network degrade unevenly and the network ages in a non-uniform way. This paper seeks the ways to deploy the network so that the workload is evenly distributed, thus the network overall behavior degrades in a smooth fashion. Assuming that the sensors should be evenly deployed within the monitored area, we look at the approach where a set of more powerful nodes routers are designated for data relaying.

We look at the approach to deploy these relaying nodes that are easy to implement in practice. Flexible - Read on multiple operating systems and devices. Easily read eBooks on smart phones, computers, or any eBook readers, including Kindle. We cannot process tax exempt orders online. If you wish to place a tax exempt order please contact us. Graduate students, academic researchers, early career researchers and engineers and industrial professionals who are interested in acquiring a big picture of various wireless sensor networks deployment approaches.

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