Wireless sensor network for beginners one of the simplest protocols for clock synchronization in wireless ad hoc and sensor networks is the converge to max protocol which has the simple . Wireless sensor networks wsns a wireless sensor network can be defined as a network of devices that can communicate the information gathered from a monitored field through wireless links the data is forwarded through multiple nodes and with a gateway the data is connected to other networks like wireless ethernet. Pdf wireless sensor network for beginners uploaded by stephenie meyer if the communication system in a sensor network is implemented using a wireless protocol then the networks are known as wireless sensor networks or simply wsns according to technologists and researchers wireless sensor networks as an entity is an important. Wireless ad hoc network o sensor nodes are more prone to failure and energy drain and their battery resources are usually not replicable or rechargeable o sensor nodes may not have global identifiers so unique addressing is not feasible in sensor network o sensor nodes are data centric while ad hoc wireless network is address centric