ABSTRACT
The increasing miniaturization of electronic components and advances in modern communication technologies enable the development of high-performance spontaneously networked and mobile systems. Wireless microsensor networks promise novel applications in several domains. Forest fire detection, battlefield surveillance, or telemonitoring of human physiological data are only in the vanguard of plenty of improvements encouraged by the deployment of microsensor networks. Hundreds or thousands of collaborating sensor nodes form a microsensor network. Sensor data is collected from the observed area, locally processed or aggregated, and transmitted to one or more base stations.
