Sensor Network Overview Papers

General overview:

• Next Century Challenges: Scalable Coordination in Sensor Networks
  Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann and Satish Kumar
  In Proceedings of the Fifth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networks (MobiCOM '99), August 1999, Seattle, Washington.
• Instrumenting the world with wireless sensor networks
  Deborah Estrin, Lewis Girod, Greg Pottie, Mani Srivastava
  International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2001), Salt Lake City, Utah, May 2001.

From a database perspective:

• Fjording the Stream: An Architecture for Queries over Streaming Sensor Data (draft: June 2001) [PDF]    Sam Madden and Michael J. Franklin, ICDE Conference, February, 2002 (to appear).

Ad-hoc routing overview:

• Nitin Vaidya
  Tutorial on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks: Routing, MAC and Transport Issues
  PowerPoint slides
  Reference list: PDF and postscript formats
  A version of this tutorial was presented at 2001 MobiCom (Rome) and 2000 MobiCom (Boston). A shorter version was presented at 2000 VTC (Boston).