Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks: Parameter Estimation, Performance Benchmarks, and Protocols - Hardcover

Serpedin, Erchin; Chaudhari, Qasim M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521764424 ISBN 13: 9780521764421

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Wireless sensor networks are set to play a key role in a wide range of civilian and military applications, with tiny sensors connected through wireless links performing various sensing, computing, communication, and control tasks in highly distributed systems. This book presents a critical element in the deployment of wireless sensor networks: the process of synchronization. It summarizes the most important clock synchronization protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks with special emphasis placed on deriving efficient clock offset estimation schemes and performance benchmarks. Graduate students of electrical and computer engineering and computer science will find this a valuable resource, as will engineers who are interested in designing efficient clock synchronization algorithms and improving the performance of existing synchronization protocols.

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Book Description

Wireless sensor networks have a huge number and range of applications, and critical to their deployment is the process of synchronization presented in this book. The most important clock synchronization protocols are summarized, with emphasis on design and optimization techniques for building efficient clock offset estimation schemes and performance benchmarks.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521764424
• ISBN 13: 9780521764421
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 244