Foreword

It is a pleasure to introduce you to this book which focuses on fundamental challenges and issues in the field of ad hoc networks and sensor wireless networks, one of the most active research areas in recent years. The book covers representative problems in MANETs and WSNs, including QoS topology control, connected dominating set backbone, broadcasting, energy-efficient routing, geographic routing, distributed localization, data gathering and data aggregation and sensor area coverage. Compared with existing books, this book gives comprehensive investigation without sacrificing theoretical depth of the selected topics. In particular, I believe the book will be a valuable companion and comprehensive reference for students who are taking a course in wireless networking.

The authors of chapters of the book are distributed in a large number of countries and many of them are prominent researchers in ad hoc and sensor wireless networks. Readers of the book can get absorbed by perspectives, suggestions, knowledge and experiences by these authors who have been working with this area for several years.