Books in the Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications series

Reflecting trends and directions in the industry, this book provides comprehensive technical guidance to developments in pervasive networked systems.

A guide covering issues in wireless mesh networks. It explores the various key challenges in diverse scenarios as well as other standards, including capacity and scalability. It focuses on concepts, effective protocols proposals, system integration, performance analysis techniques, simulation, experiments, and future research directions.

Presents introductory concepts, fundamental techniques, advances, and open issues in broadband wireless multimedia. This title focuses on the routing and cross-layer design issue of multimedia communication over multihop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. It also discusses issues related to multimedia communications over WLANs.

Integrating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for the first time, this comprehensive text explains the importance of their complementary nature, flexible combination, and ubiquitous computing. It covers the tags, readers, and middle ware associated with RFID.

Physical Layer Security in Wireless Communications supplies a systematic overview of the basic concepts, recent advancements, and open issues in providing communication security at the physical layer. It introduces the key concepts, design issues, and solutions to physical layer security in single-user and multi-user communication systems, as well as large-scale wireless networks. Presenting high-level discussions along with specific examples, and illustrations, this is an ideal reference for anyone that needs to obtain a macro-level understanding of physical layer security and its role in future wireless communication systems.

RFID and Sensor Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Security, and Integrations is the authoritative reference on RFID and WSNs. Covering a broad range of topics that includes everything from the basics to insights into future directions, this cutting-edge book reviews architectures, protocols, standards, security, and applications. With sections devoted to each individual element, the text starts by covering the tags, readers, and middleware associated with RFID. Next, it provides insight into the routing, medium access control, and cross-layer optimization of WSNs. The third section focuses on the integration of RFID and WSN, addresses contemporary challenges, and illustrates concepts and applications with practical examples.

The realization of the ¿Internet of Things¿¿a world in which billions of objects will report their location, identity, and history over wireless connections¿will require dramatic changes in systems, architectures, and communications. Although RFID has already laid the foundation for this, further research and development is needed to enable such a