Wireless Sensor Networks : Technology, Protocols, and Applications

ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Daniel Minoli has many years of telecom, networking, and IT experience with end
users, carriers, academia, and venture capitalists, including work at ARPA think
tanks, Bell Telephone Laboratories, ITT, Prudential Securities, Bell Communications
Research (Bellcore/Telcordia), AT&T, Capital One Financial, SES Americom,
New York University, Rutgers University, Stevens Institute, and Societé General de
Financiament de Quebec (1975–2001). Recently, he played a founding role in the
launching of two networking companies through the high-tech incubator Leading
Edge Networks Inc., which he ran in the early 2000s: Global Wireless Services, a
provider of broadband hotspot mobile Internet and hotspot VoIP services to highend
marinas; and InfoPort Communications Group, an optical and gigabit Ethernet
metropolitan carrier supporting Data Center/SAN/channel extension and Grid Computing
network access services (2001–2003). Currently, he is working on IPTV,
DVB-H, satellite technology and (wireless) emergency communications systems.
Mr. Minoli has worked extensively in the field of wireless and over the years has
published approximately 20 papers on the topic. His work in wireless started in the
mid-1970s with extensive efforts on ARPA-sponsored research on wireless packet
networks. In the early 1980s he was involved in the design of high-resilience radio
networks. In the mid-1980s he was involved in designing and deploying VSAT networks,
including work on correlated traffic profiles. Recently, he has been involved
with the novel design of Wi-Fi hotspot networks for interference-laden public
places such as marinas, and has written the first book on the market on hotspot networking:
Hotspot Networks—Wi-Fi for Public Access Locations (McGraw-Hill,
2003). He has also been involved in the planning and deployment of high-density
enterprise IEEE 802.11b/g/e/i systems and VoWi-Fi. He recently acted as an expert
witness in a (successful) $11 billion lawsuit regarding a wireless air-to-ground
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