Description

INTRODUCTION

This chapter presents a brief description of important terms and key

concepts used in our research. Section 1.1 introduces the basic concept of

wireless sensor networks. Section 1.2 and 1.3 introduces the basic

components of wireless sensor networks and their applications. Section1.4

discuss the energy issues in wireless sensor networks. Section 1.5 and

1.6 describes a few important energy-efficient data acquisition and data

reduction techniques used in wireless sensor networks. Sections 1.7, 1.8 and

1.9 introduce the necessary background, problem statement, and proposed

solution respectively. Finally, section 1.10 presents the thesis organization.