Building Wireless Sensor Networks : Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

Nandini Mukherjee has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India since 1992. Currently, she is a professor in the Department. She has served as director of the School of Mobile Computing and Communication, Jadavpur University for almost six years. Before joining Jadavpur University as a faculty member, Professor Mukherjee served in the industry for nearly three years. Professor Mukherjee received a Commonwealth Scholarship for her doctoral study in the UK, and she completed her Ph.D in computer science from the University of Manchester, UK in 1999. She is an active researcher in her chosen field. Her research interests are in areas of high performance parallel computing, grid and cloud computing, and wireless sensor networks. She is a senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society.

Sarmistha Neogy is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She received her Ph.D in engineering and master’s and bachelor’s in computer science and engineering from Jadavpur University. Dr. Neogy’s research interests are in areas of fault tolerance in distributed systems, reliability and security in wireless and mobile systems, and wireless sensor networks. She is a senior member of the IEEE and IEEE Computer Society. She has a number of publications in international journals and proceedings of international conferences.

Sarbani Roy is an assistant professor at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. She was previously a Fulbright Fellow at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA, and a lecturer at St. Thomas’s College of Engineering and Technology, Kolkata, India. She holds a B.Sc (Hons) in computer science, M.Sc in computer science, and M.Tech in computer science and engineering from the University of Calcutta, India, and a Ph.D in engineering from Jadavpur University. Dr. Roy’s work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Her research interests include distributed computing, wireless sensor networks, grid and cloud computing, and social network analysis.