Part I Theory --Competition and collaboraton in wireless sensor networks /H. Vincent Poor --Distributed and recursive parameter estimation /Srinivasan Sundhar Ram, Venugopal V. Veeravalli, and Angelina Nediac --Self-organization of sensor networks with heterogeneous connectivity /Arun Prasath, Abhinay Venuturumilli, Aravind Ranganathan, and Ali A. Minai --Cooperative strategies in dense sensor networks /Anna Scaglione, Y.-W. Peter Hong, and Birsen Sirkeci Mergen --Multipath diversity and robustness for sensor networks /Christina Fragouli, Katerina Argyraki, and Lorenzo Keller --Part II Theory and practice --Data aggregation in wireless sensor networks: a multifaceted perspective /Sergio Palazzo, Francesca Cuomo, and Laura Galluccio --Robust data dissemination for wireless sensor networks in hostile environments /Jun Lu, Yi Pan, Satoshi Yamamoto, and Tatsuya Suda --Markov decision process-based resource and information management for sensor networks /David Akselrod, Thomas Lang, Michael McDonald, and Thiagalingam Kirubarajan --Part III Practice --Deployment techniques for sensor networks /Jan Beutel, Kay Reomer, Matthias Ringwald, and Matthias Woehrle --Static and dynamic localization techniques for wireless sensor networks /Jean-Michel Dricot, Gianluca Bontempi, and Philippe De Doncker --Enhancing underwater acoustic sensor networks using surface radios: issues, challenges and solutions /Zhong Zhou, Hai Yan, Saleh Ibrahim, Jun-Hong Cui, Zhijie Shi, and Reda Ammar --Communication through soil in wireless underground sensor networks - theory and practice /M. Can Vuran and Agnelo R. Silva --Body sensor networks for sport, wellbeing and health /Douglas McIlwraith and Guang-Zhong Yang --Index.