Networked Sensing Information and Control

This timely book presents research on informational and mathematical aspects of networked sensing systems. The importance of the book is evidenced by the explosion of several independent special sessions devoted to specific aspects of sensor networks in reputed international conferences. Despite these efforts the focus has been on specific and isolated aspects of networked sensing and there is a need for cross-disciplinary efforts to integrate ideas from the various research communities. The book presents research work conducted by internationally reputed researchers from control, information theory and signal processing focused on the common theme of distributed sensing, inferencing, and control over networks. On account of the contemporaneous nature of the topic, there is certain to be significant interest evinced by the both the research and industrial community at large.

Inhalt
Blind Localization.- Blind Calibration of Networks of Sensors: Theory and Algorithms.- Sparse multidimensional scaling for blind tracking in sensor networks.- Distributed Computation over Unreliable Communication Networks.- Error Exponents for Decentralized Detection in Tree Networks.- Function Computation in Wireless Sensor Networks.- Network Coding for Distributed Storage in Wireless Networks.- Rate Constrained Field Reconstruction.- Distributed Field Estimation with Onebit Sensors.- On the Number of Bits to Encode the Outputs of Densely Deployed Sensors.- Separation Theorems And Partial Orderings For Sensor Network Problems.- Dynamics & Control over Communication Networks.- Toward the Design of a Transport Layer for Networked Control Systems.- Reliable Distributed Estimation with Intermittent Communications.- Smart Sleeping Policies for Energy-Efficient Tracking in Sensor Networks.- Distributed coverage of nonconvex environments.