
Comprehensive Guide to Heterogeneous Networks
- 1st Edition - September 20, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Kiran Ahuja, Anand Nayyar, Kavita Sharma
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 2 7 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 5 3 6 - 7
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Request a sales quoteComprehensive Guide to Heterogeneous Networks discusses the fundamental motivations behind this cutting-edge development, along with a brief discussion on the diverse definitions of HNs. The future of heterogeneous wireless networks (HWNs) is covered, including test cases, cost configuration, economic benefits and basic challenges. Other sections cover the topology management method in context of heterogeneous sensor nodes with diverse communication and sensing range. In addition, an outline of the pros and cons of the clustering criteria in HWSNs and taxonomy are summarized and provide futuristic research directions. Final sections discuss the future evolution of HNs and their implementations in diverse applications.
This is an essential reference book for advanced students on courses in wireless communications, clinical engineering and networking. It will also be of interest to researchers, network planners, technical mangers and other professionals in these fields.
- Discusses the most important problems, challenges and issues which arise when designing real-time heterogeneous networks for diverse scenarios
- Represents the unique features of heterogeneous sensor networks, giving the end-user a better understanding of the environment
- Provides an overview of real-time performance issues in heterogeneous networks, specifically multi-tasking, multi-level scheduling, localization and security issues
- Includes applications of heterogeneous networks in diverse fields and focuses on the convergence of heterogeneous wireless networks for 5G
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks: Deployment strategies and coverage models
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: HWSN applications
- 3: HWSN deployment strategies
- 4: Coverage concept, coverage schemes, and solution approaches
- 5: Conclusion and future outlook
- References
- Chapter 2: Efficient multitasking in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Cooperative task allocation in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
- 3: Protocol and algorithms of heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
- 4: Wireless sensor networks formation
- 5: Open research challenges and future directions
- 6: Comparison of various algorithms
- 7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: Network selection in a heterogeneous wireless environment based on path prediction and user mobility
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Network selection formulation
- 3: Mobility-based network selection
- 4: Performance evaluation
- 5: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 4: Reducing control packets using covering rough set for route selection in mobile ad hoc networks
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: A review of rough set-based techniques for reducing redundant packets
- 3: Rough Set Theory (RST) mechanism in manets
- 4: Reducing redundant control packets using covering rough set in manet for route selection
- 5: Experimental results and simulation environment set-up
- 6: Conclusion and future direction
- References
- Chapter 5: Optimization of hybrid broadcast/broadband networks for the delivery of linear services using stochastic geometry
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hybrid models
- 3: Analytical analysis of the hybrid model
- 4: Discussion and recommendations
- 5: Conclusions and future scope
- References
- Chapter 6: A comprehensive survey on heterogeneous cognitive radio networks
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Coexistence challenges for HetCWNs in TVWS
- 3: RA in HetCWNs
- 4: MAC protocols for HetCWN
- 5: Security issues/challenges for heterogeneous cognitive radio networks
- 6: Global standardization activities on HetCWNs
- 7: Conclusion and future scope
- References
- Chapter 7: Evaluation and analysis of clustering algorithms for heterogeneous wireless sensor networks
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Hierarchical routing protocols’ evaluation process
- 3: Clustering
- 4: Clustering scheme
- 5: Simulation and results
- 6: Performance analysis
- 7: Conclusions and future work
- References
- Chapter 8: Analysis of energy-efficient cluster-based routing protocols for heterogeneous WSNs
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Overview of heterogeneous WSN (HWSN)
- 3: Overview of cluster-based routing protocols
- 4: Literature review
- 5: Application of optimization for energy efficiency in WSN
- 6: Evolutional optimization cluster-based routing protocol (EOCRP)
- 7: Theoretical benefits of proposed EOCRP
- 8: Challenges
- 9: Conclusion
- 10: Future scope
- References
- Chapter 9: Imperative load-balancing techniques in heterogeneous wireless networks
- Abstract
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Different types of load-balancing techniques
- 3: Comparative analysis of load-balancing algorithms
- 4: Impact of AI in wireless heterogeneous networks
- 5: Need of machine learning in a wireless heterogeneous network
- 6: Conclusion and future scope
- References
- Chapter 10: Intelligent intersystem handover delay reduction algorithm for heterogeneous wireless networks
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Related work
- 3: Design of Intelligent Intersystem Handover Algorithm
- 4: Simulation results
- 5: Conclusion and future work
- Appendix: Table of notations
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 20, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 336
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323905275
- eBook ISBN: 9780323905367
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Kiran Ahuja
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Anand Nayyar
Dr. Anand Nayyar received his Ph.D (Computer Science) from Desh Bhagat University in 2017 in Wireless Sensor Networks and Swarm Intelligence. He is currently working in Graduate School, Faculty of Information Technology- Duy Tan University, Vietnam. He has published numerous research papers in various high-impact journals and holds 10 Australian patents and 1 Indian Design to his credit in the area of Wireless Communications, Artificial Intelligence, IoT and Image Processing.
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