Self organization in sensor and actor networks explores self organization mechanisms and methodologies concerning the efficient coordination between intercommunicating autonomous systemsself organization is often referred to as the multitude of algorithms and methods that organise the global behaviour of a system based on inter system communication studies of self organization in natural systems first took off in the 1960s. Self organization in sensor and actor networks explores self organization mechanisms and methodologies concerning the efficient coordination between intercommunicating autonomous systemsself organization is often referred to as the multitude of algorithms and methods that organise the global behaviour of a system based on inter system communication studies of self organization in natural systems first took off in the 1960s. Self organization in sensor and actor networks explores self organization mechanisms and methodologies concerning the efficient coordination between intercommunicating autonomous systemsself organization is often referred to as the multitude of algorithms and methods that organise the global behaviour of a system based on inter system communication studies of self organization in natural systems first took off in the 1960s. The aim of this book is to investigate the concepts of self organization in the context of autonomous sensor and actor networks the primary objective is to categorize the basic self organization methods and to survey techniques for communication and coordination in massively distributed systems according to the developed classification scheme. About the author dr falko dressler is assistant professor at the department of computer sciences university of erlangen germany and since 2004 head of the autonomic networking group he has made many contributions in the area of quality of service in communication networks ip multicast sensor networks network security intrusion detection high speed monitoring ip traceback ad