TY - BOOK ID - 107407999 TI - Algorithms for Sensor and Ad Hoc Networks : Advanced Lectures AU - Wagner, Dorothea AU - Wattenhofer, Roger AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2007 SN - 9783540749912 PB - Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Complex analysis KW - Mass communications KW - Computer architecture. Operating systems KW - Information systems KW - Computer. Automation KW - ICT (informatie- en communicatietechnieken) KW - IR (information retrieval) KW - complexe analyse (wiskunde) KW - ad-hocnetwerken KW - informatiesystemen KW - software engineering KW - computernetwerken KW - communicatietechnologie UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:107407999 AB - 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 thesensorsformaself-organizednetworkandprovidedata,forexampleabout a forthcoming earthquake. The trend towards wireless communication increasingly a?ects 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 orad hoc networks, depending on the point of view and the application. Wireless ad hoc and sensor networks have gained an incredible research momentum.Computerscientistsandengineersofall?avorsareembracingthe area. Sensor networks have been adopted by researchers in many ?elds: from hardware technology to operating systems, from antenna design to databases, from information theory to networking, from graph theory to computational geometry. ER -