Wireless Personal Area Networks: Performance, Interconnection, and Security with IEEE 802.15.4

Wireless Personal Area Networks provides an in-depth analysis of the recent IEEE 802.15.4 standard for low data rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs), including suggestions to improve performance and comparisons with the related 802.15.1 (Bluetooth) standard. It assesses the suitability of the standard for the development and deployment of wireless sensor networks as well as providing guidance and insight into the relative advantages and disadvantages of various performance solutions.

Wireless Personal Area Networks:

Provides a comprehensive, in-depth look at the issues surrounding WPAN network operation and performance.
Investigates multi-cluster networks and compares how they can be implemented.
Analyzes the performance of a single cluster under different traffic and power management regimes including uplink vs. downlink traffic, acknowledged vs. unacknowledged traffic, saturation vs. non-saturation, and the like.
Discusses security issues in WPANs such as different security threats, their impact on performance, standard security mechanisms, and security policies.
Compares the IEEE 802.15.4 standard with the related Bluetooth IEEE 802.15.1 standard in terms of suitability for implementing wireless sensor networks.

This reference is a valuable tool for developers and researchers getting acquainted with various aspects of IEEE 802.15.4 technology. Graduate students studying courses such as Performance Evaluation, Wireless Sensor Networks and Queuing Theory will also find this book very insightful.

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Title of ebook: Wireless Personal Area Networks: Performance, Interconnection, and Security with IEEE 802.15.4
ISBN: 9780470986417
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Internet download file size: 2079 kb
Pages: 336
Released online for download: 05-19-2008
Author of eBook: Misic, Jelena
Author: Misic, Vojislav

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Chapter One

Prologue: Wireless Personal Area Networks

1.1 Wireless Ad Hoc Networks

Wireless ad hoc networks are a category of wireless networks that utilize multi-hop relaying of packets yet are capable of operating without any infrastructure support (Perkins 2001; Ram Murthy and Manoj 2004; Toh 2002). Such networks are formed by a number of devices, possibly heterogeneous, with wireless communication capabilities that connect and disconnect at will. In addition, some or all of those devices may be mobile and are thus able to change their location frequently; ad hoc networks with mobile nodes are often referred to as mobile ad hoc networks, or MANETs. Even without mobility, nodes can join and/or leave an ad hoc network at will, and such networks need to possess self-organizing capability in terms of media access, routing, and other networking functions. Ad hoc networking includes such diverse applications as mobile, collaborative, and distributed computing; mobile ... read full excerpt from Wireless Personal Area Networks: Performance, Interconnection, and Security with IEEE 802.15.4 ebook

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