Preface -- Contributors -- 1. Applications, Models, Problems, and Solution Strategies (Hai Liu, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 1.1. Wireless Sensors -- 1.2. Single-Hop Wireless Sensor Networks -- 1.3. Multihop Wireless Sensor Networks -- 1.4. Event-Driven, Periodic, and On-Demand Reporting -- 1.5. Unit Disk Graph Modeling, Hop Count Metric, and Probabilistic Reception -- 1.6. Adjustable Transmission Range and Power Metric -- 1.7. Cost Metrics -- 1.8. Sleep and Active State Modeling -- 1.9. Architectures for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks -- 1.10. Simple Models and Application of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks -- 1.11. Generating Connected Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks -- 1.12. Generating Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks -- 1.13. Problems at Physical, MAC, and Transport Layers -- 1.14. Problems at the Network Layer -- 1.15. Localized Protocols as the Solution Framework -- 1.16. Implementation of Sensor Motes -- 1.17. Experiments On Test Beds -- 1.18. Experiences with the Development of Sensor Network Systems -- References -- 2. Energy-Efficient Backbones and Broadcasting in Sensor and Actuator Networks (Hai Liu, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 2.1. Backbones -- 2.2. Grid Partitioning-Based Backbones -- 2.3. Clustering-Based Backbones -- 2.4. Connected Dominating Sets as Backbones -- 2.5. Overview of Broadcasting Techniques -- 2.6. Physical Layer-Based Flooding, Neighbor Detection and Route Discovery -- 2.7. Parameterless Broadcasting for Delay Tolerant-Networks -- 2.8. Backbones and Broadcasting in Sensor-Actuator Networks -- 2.9. RNG and LMST -- 2.10. Minimal Energy Broadcasting -- References -- 3. Sensor Area Coverage (Hai Liu, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 3.1. Problems, Models, and Assumptions -- 3.2. Coverage and Connectivity Criteria -- 3.3. Area-Dominating Set Based Sensor Area Coverage Algorithm -- 3.4. Asynchronous Sensor Area Coverage -- 3.5. Synchronous Sensor Area Coverage -- 3.6. Multicoverage By Sensors.

3.7. Physical Layer-Based Sensing, Protocols, and Case Studies -- 3.8. Operation Range Assignment in WSANs -- References -- 4. Geographic Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (Hai Liu, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 4.1. Flooding-Based Routing and Georouting in Sensor Networks -- 4.2. Greedy, Projection, and Direction-Based Routing -- 4.3. Applications of Cost to Progress Ratio Framework to Georouting -- 4.4. Memorization-Based Georouting with Guaranteed Delivery -- 4.5. Guaranteed Delivery without Memorization -- 4.6. Beaconless Georouting -- 4.7. Georouting with Virtual and Tree Coordinates -- 4.8. Georouting in Sensor and Actuator Networks -- 4.9. Link Quality Metric in Sensor and Actuator Networks -- 4.10. Physical Layer Aspects and Case Studies of Georouting -- References -- 5. Multicasting, Geocasting, and Anycasting in Sensor and Actuator Networks (Arnaud Casteigts, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 5.1. Multicasting -- 5.2. Geocasting with Guaranteed Delivery -- 5.3. Rate-Based Multicasting -- 5.4. Anycasting with Guaranteed Delivery -- References -- 6. Sink Mobility in Wireless Sensor Networks (Xu Li, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Energy Hole Problem -- 6.3. Energy Efficiency by Sink Mobility -- 6.4. Sink Mobility in Delay-Tolerant Networks -- 6.5. Sink Mobility in Real-Time Networks -- References -- 7. Topology Control in Sensor, Actuator, and Mobile Robot Networks (Arnaud Casteigts, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. General Approaches In Static Sensor Networks -- 7.3. The Minimum Spanning Tree -- 7.4. Data Aggregation -- 7.5. Spanning Trees in Uncontrolled Dynamic Topologies -- 7.6. Detection of Critical Nodes and Links -- 7.7. Biconnected Robot Team Movement for Sensor Deployment -- 7.8. Augmentation Algorithm for Robot Self Deployment -- 7.9. Biconnectivity From Connectivity without Additional Constraints -- 7.10. Biconnectivity from Connectivity with Additional Constraints.

References -- 8. Location Service in Sensor and Mobile Actuator Networks (Xu Li, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Classification of Location Services -- 8.3. Location Update Policies -- 8.4. Flooding-Based Algorithms -- 8.5. Quorum-Based Algorithms -- 8.6. Home-Based Approaches -- References -- 9. Coordination in Sensor, Actuator, and Robot Networks (Hai Liu, Veljko Malbasa, Ivan Mezei, Amiya Nayak, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 9.1. Sensor-Actuator Coordination -- 9.2. Task Assignment in Multirobot Systems -- 9.3. Selecting Best Robot(s) when Communication Cost is Negligible -- 9.4. Selecting Best Robot(s) with Nonnegligible Communication Costs -- 9.5. Dynamic Task Assignment -- 9.6. Deploying Sensors to Improve Connectivity -- 9.7. Fault-Tolerant Semipassive Coordination Among Actuators -- 9.8. Dispersion of Autonomous Mobile Robots -- 9.9. Distributed Boundary Coverage by Robots -- 9.10. Clustering Robot Swarms -- 9.11. Robot Teams for Exploration and Mapping -- 9.12. Coordinated Actuator Movement for Energy-Efficient Sensor Reporting -- 9.13. Flying Robots -- References -- 10. Sensor Placement in Sensor and Actuator Networks (Xu Li, Amiya Nayak, David Simplot-Ryl, and Ivan Stojmenovic) -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Movement-Assisted Sensor Placement -- 10.3. Mobile Sensor Migration -- 10.4. Sensor Placement by Actuators -- 10.5. Coverage Maintenance by Actuators -- 10.6. Sensor Self-Deployment -- 10.7. Sensor Relocation -- References -- Index.