The book identifies the performance challenges concerning Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and analyzes their impact on the performance of routing
protocols. It presents a thorough literature survey to identify the issues affecting routing
protocol performance as well as a mathematical model for calculating the end-to-end delays of
the routing protocol ACQUIRE a comparison of two routing protocols (ACQUIRE and DIRECTED
DIFFUSION) is also provided for evaluation purposes. On the basis of the results and literature
review recommendations are made for better selection of protocols regarding the nature of the
respective application and related challenges. In addition this book covers a proposed
simulator that integrates both RFID and WSN technologies. Therefore the manuscript is divided
in two major parts: an integrated architecture of smart nodes and a power-optimized protocol
for query and information interchange.
