Declarative Routing Protocol Documentation

Abstract

This report documents the motivation, present capability, and theoretical promise of the Declarative Routing Protocol (DRP) developed at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as part of the DARPA Sensor Information Technology (SensIT) program. DRP was developed as a means of enabling distributed wireless sensors to configure themselves into a scalable ad hoc network and respond in an energy-efficient way to asynchronous requests for sensor information. Conventional networking approaches are generally not adequate for such applications because of energy constraints, reliability and scalability requirements and the greater variability in topology present compared with traditional fully wired or last-hop wireless (remote to base station) networks. DRP operates within these constraints by exploiting energy-supplied data descriptions to control network routing and resource allocation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 28, 2003
Accession Number
ADA412846

Entities

People

  • D. Coffin
  • K. Kurian
  • M. Nischan
  • P. Boettcher
  • R. Czerwinski

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Air Force
  • Application Software
  • Computer Programs
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Debugging
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Systems
  • Mesh Networks
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Topology
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Reliability
  • Routing Protocols
  • Wireless Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.