Emerging Technologies in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks: Applications and Future Development

This collection of sixteen articles on next generation wireless networking showcases current scholarships in ad-hoc and sensor network technologies. The work is divided into three sections covering ad-hoc network implementation, advances in sensor networks and combined hybrid systems and individual articles cover such topics as low power design for sensor networks, wireless sensor networks for agriculture, power aware routing in ad-hoc networks, ad-hoc QoS and key management in mobile networking. Individual papers include illustrations, tables, notes and bibliographies and a volume-wide compilation of further subject resources is provided. Contributors include academics from a variety of institutions around the world. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)