ABSTRACT
Wireless sensor networks are complex systems consisting of large numbers of small devices, each capable of a combination of radio communication, computation, sensing, and actuation [1]. They are able to provide a fine granularity of spatiotemporal monitoring at large scale. Applications envisioned for these next-generation networks range from military applications and ecological studies to civil structure monitoring and industrial process control. It is believed that pervasive deployments of such autonomous embedded networked sensing systems will constitute an important milestone in the information revolution [2].
