Integrating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) for the first time, this comprehensive text explains the importance of their complementary nature, flexible combination, and ubiquitous computing. With a section devoted to each individual element, the text covers the tags, readers, and middleware associated with RFID. It then provides insight into the routing, medium access control, and cross-layer optimization of WSN. The book discusses the enhanced visibility and monitoring capability that is possible and observes practical uses such as a smart home, a...

With the increasing popularization of personal hand-held mobile devices, more people use them to establish network connectivity and to query and share data among themselves in the absence of network infrastructure, creating mobile social networks (MSNet). Since users are only intermittently connected to MSNets, user mobility should be exploited to bridge network partitions and forward data. Currently, data route/forward approaches for such intermittently connected networks are commonly "store-carry-and-forward" schemes, which exploit the physical user movements to carry data around the...