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An overview on wireless sensor networks fabian nack institute of computer science ics, freie universitat berlin email. Wireless sensor network an overview sciencedirect topics. The authors describe the existing wsn applications and discuss the research efforts being undertaken in this field. A wsn can be defined as a network of devices, denoted as nodes, which can sense the environment and communicate the information gathered from the monitored field e. Authors address many of the key challenges faced in the design, analysis and deployment of wireless sensor networks.
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