Building Sensor Networks

Ioanis Nikolaidis is a professor in the Department of Computing Science and an adjunct professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy at the University of Alberta. His research interests are in computer network protocol modeling and simulation, network protocol performance, and wireless sensor network architectures and applications. He has published 90 papers in refereed journals and conferences, as well as four book chapters, and is the editor of IEEE Network magazine. He has cochaired the CNSR 2011 and ADHOC-NOW 2004 and 2010 conferences and has served as a technical program committee member and reviewer for numerous conferences and journals, as well as for several funding agencies. He is currently a steering committee member for the annual WLN workshop and ADHOC-NOW conference. He is a member of IEEE and a lifetime member of ACM.Krzysztof (Kris) Iniewski manages R&D at Redlen Technologies, Inc., a start-up company in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a president of CMOS Emerging Technologies Research Inc., an organization of high-tech events covering communications, microsystems, optoelectronics, and sensors. Dr. Iniewski has held numerous faculty and management positions at the University of Toronto, the University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, and PMC-Sierra, Inc. He has published more than 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. He holds 18 international patents granted in the United States, Canada, France, Germany, and Japan. He is a frequent invited speaker, has consulted for multiple organizations internationally, and has written and edited several books.

• Introduction. Design Practices: Dynamic Profiling and Optimization Methodologies for Sensor Networks. Stochastic Inference in Wireless Sensor Networks. Implementation of Wireless Sensor Network Systems with PN-WSNA Approaches. Real-Time Search in the Sensor Internet. Networking Protocols: Traffic Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. Decision-Tree Construction for Event Classification in Distributed Wearable Computers. A Network Structure for Delay-Aware Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks. Distributed Modulation Classification in the Context of Wireless Sensor Networks. Application Experiences: Challenges in Wireless Chemical Sensor Networks. Low-Power, Extensive Sensor Networks from the Wired Perspective. Maritime Data Management and Analytics: A Survey of Solutions Based on Automatic Identification System. Above and Below the Ocean Surface: A WSN Framework for Monitoring the Great Barrier Reef. Index.