Wireless sensor networks have a range of applications, including military uses and in environmental monitoring.

When an area of interest is inaccessible by conventional means, such a network can be deployed in ways resulting in a random distribution of the sensors. Randomly Deployed Wireless Sensor Networks offers a probabilistic method to model and analyze these networks. The book considers the network design, coverage, target detection, localization and tracking of sensors in randomly deployed wireless networks, and proposes a stochastic model. It quantifies the relationship between parameters of the network and its performance, and puts forward a communication protocol. The title provides analyses and formulas, giving engineering insight into randomly deployed wireless sensor networks.

Chapters and Topics

• Analysis of coverage performance
• Working modes and scheduling mechanisms
• The relationship between sensor behavior and network performance properties
• Probabilistic forwarding routing protocols
• Localization methods for multiple targets and target number estimation
• Experiments on target localization and tracking with a Mica sensor system

Details a probabilistic method to model and analyze randomly deployed wireless sensor networks

Gives working modes and scheduling mechanisms for sensor nodes, allowing high-probability of target detection

Considers the relationship between sensor behaviour and network performance and lifetime

Offers probabilistic forwarding routing protocols for randomly deployed wireless sensor networks

Describes a method for localizing multiple targets and estimating their number