The opaque style of some of the writing may indeed be off-putting to the less educated reader, but that's not the target audience. The target audience consists of trained professionals who are already working in related areas, who want to see "what's going on" in a hot field.
This is neither a primer nor a reference, but rather a survey of current practice. It's a source of ideas and inspiration, not canned answers. If you're looking for a book with the narrative flow of a novel, that will take you from total ignorance to mastery of the field, this is not the book for you. To get the most out of it, you must be willing (and able) to evaluate the ideas presented and determine for yourself how they fit in with your own needs and goals. The protocols presented were not all designed for the same needs - node counts, degrees of mobility and reliability, etc. All of them probably contain some flaw or other; this is in fact logically necessary because sometimes the chapter authors flatly contradict one another. However, a protocol that contains three flaws might nonetheless contain seven other good ideas.
This is a challenging book. Professionals and (advanced, probably graduate level) students who rise to the challenge and invest some of their own thought in the reading process will get a lot out of it, as I and others have done. Less advanced readers, or those who hope to learn by passive absorption, might be disappointed.
