The idea of this book comes from the observation that sensor networks represent
a topic of interest from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The title underlines
that sensor networks offer the unique opportunity of clearly linking theory
with practice. In fact, owing to their typical low-cost, academic researchers have
the opportunity of implementing sensor network testbeds to check the validity of
their theories, algorithms, protocols, etc., in reality. Likewise, a practitioner has the
opportunity of understanding what are the principles behind the sensor networks
under use and, thus, how to properly tune some accessible network parameters to
improve the performance