part PART I: WIRELESS PERSONAL-AREA AND SENSORY-AREA NETWORKS -- chapter 1 Coverage and Connectivity of Wireless Sensor Networks -- chapter 2 Communication Protocols -- chapter 3 FireFly: A Time-Synchronized Real-Time Sensor Networking Platform -- chapter 4 Energy Conservation in Sensor and Sensor-Actuator Networks -- chapter 5 Security in Wireless Sensor Networks -- chapter 6 Autonomous Swarm-Bot Systems for Wireless Sensor Networks -- chapter 7 A Smart Blind Alarm Surveillance and Blind Guide Network System on Wireless Optical Communication -- part PART II: WIRELESS LOCAL-AREA NETWORKS -- chapter 8 Opportunism in Wireless Networks: Principles and Techniques -- chapter 9 Localization Techniques for Wireless Local Area Networks -- chapter 10 Channel Assignment in Wireless Local Area Networks -- chapter 11 MultiChannel MAC Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- chapter 12 Enhancing Quality of Service for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- chapter 13 QoS Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks -- chapter 14 Energy Conservation Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks -- chapter 15 Wireless LAN Security -- chapter 16 Temporal Key Integrity Protocol and Its Security Issues in IEEE 802.11i -- part PART III: INTEGRATED SYSTEMS -- chapter 17 Wireless Mesh Networks: Design Principles -- chapter 18 Wireless Mesh Networks: Multichannel Protocols and Standard Activities -- chapter 19 Integrated Heterogeneous Wireless Networks -- chapter 20 Intrusion Detection for Wireless Network -- chapter 21 Security Issues in an Integrated Cellular Network—WLAN and MANET -- chapter 22 Fieldbus for Distributed Control Applications -- chapter 23 Supporting Multimedia Communication in the Integrated WCDMA/WLAN/Ad Hoc Networks.