Wireless Wide Area Networking for Device Monitoring
Owen A. L. Zacharias · 2004
Engineering. With the guidance of Professor Wendi B. Heinzelman, he has researched wireless communications protocols with a major focus into wide area networking. ii Acknowledgements I would like to thank my Advisor on my thesis work, Professor Wendi B. Heinzelman. It was a very rewarding experience to work with someone who is so enthusiastic and knowledgeable in her discipline, and who provides continuing and critical feedback. In addition, I would also like to thank the talented graduate students who make up Professors Heinzelman’s research group. They have all provided me with a strong source of information and an excellent outlet for critical thinking and reasoning. I would like to especially thank Colin Goldsmith, who partnered with me on our thesis work with Xerox: without his drive and knowledge this Thesis would not exist. I would also like to thank those in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department who have helped me along my way over the past five years. Without my fellow