Due to the broadcast nature of radio propagation, the wireless air interface is open and
accessible to both authorized and illegitimate users. This completely differs from a wired …

Sensor networks with battery-powered nodes can seldom simultaneously meet the design
goals of lifetime, cost, sensing reliability and sensing and transmission coverage. Energy …

Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks! Protocols and Architectures for
Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless …

For conventional wireless networks, the main target of resource allocation (RA) is to
efficiently utilize the available resources. Generally, there are no changes in the available …

Ocean bottom sensor nodes can be used for oceanographic data collection, pollution
monitoring, offshore exploration and tactical surveillance applications. Moreover, Unmanned …

The wireless medium being inherently broadcast in nature and hence prone to interferences
requires highly optimized medium access control (MAC) protocols. This holds particularly …

Security in mobile ad hoc networks is difficult to achieve, notably because of the vulnerability
of wireless links, the limited physical protection of nodes, the dynamically changing …

Vehicular ad hoc networking is an emerging technology for future on-the-road
communications. Due to the virtue of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure …

The recent increasing interest in ad hoc networks has motivated the study and development
of interference models capable of capturing the intrinsic characteristics of this kind of …

During the ten years since the appearance of the groundbreaking, bestselling first edition of
The Electronics Handbook, the field has grown and changed tremendously. With a focus on …