Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach is a book that delves into the subject of information processing in sensor networks. Today’s world is one that is wireless and information processing using sensors is a rapidly-growing research area of electrical engineering and computer science.

This book helps the reader understand the fundamental theories of wireless technology with respect to the different parts of the sensor network. Ad hoc sensors, due to the improvement in sensor technology, are being used in a wide variety of fields such as military, commercial, homeland security applications, air traffic control and deep sea diving. These sensors are making it possible to do a number of jobs such as monitoring traffic, wildlife habitats, security of a given area, sensing and diagnosis of machines in the industry. This book covers topics such as routing, signal processing and estimation, distributed algorithms and databases, probabilistic reasoning and communication theory and protocols. Topics like energy aware computing, evaluation metrics, design methodologies, querying, information organisation and self-organisation are also covered in detail, giving examples of the same from implementation efforts and current research.

Wireless Sensor Networks: An Information Processing Approach integrates the many topics which come under the broad spectrum of wireless sensing and network design. This book shows the reader how network self-organisation, querying and data routing can be used for high-level information processing tasks. This book can be utilised by researchers, students and practitioners in all application areas such as environmental monitoring, industrial sensing and diagnostics.The book was published by Elsevier India in 2005. It is written in English and is available in paperback. This is the first edition of the book.