An overview of the various approaches and insights required to understand and optimize wireless ad hoc and sensor network performance.

Xiang Yang Li is currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also holds a visiting professorship or adjunct-professorship at TianJing University, WuHan University and NanJing University, in China. He was awarded his PhD in 2001 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. A leading researcher in the field of wireless networks, he has made important contributions in the areas of network topology and routing. His current research interests include cooperation, energy efficiency, and distributed algorithms for wireless ad hoc and sensor networks.

Part I. Introduction: 1. History of wireless networks; 2. Wireless transmission fundamentals; Part II. Wireless MACs: 3. Wireless medium access control protocols; 4. TDMA channel assignment; 5. Spectrum channel assignment; 6. CDMA code channel assignment; Part III. Topology Control and Clustering: 7. Clustering and network backbone; 8. Weighted network backbone; 9. Topology control with flat structures; 10. Power assignment; 11. Critical transmission ranges for connectivity; 12. Other transition phenomena; Part IV. Wireless Network Routing Protocols: 13. Energy efficient unicast routing; 14. Energy efficient broadcast/multicast routing; 15. Routing with selfish terminals; 16. Joint routing, channel assignment and link scheduling; Part V. Other Issues: 17. Localization and location tracking; 18. Performance limitations of random wireless ad hoc networks; 19. Security of wireless ad hoc networks.