Asymptotic Connectivity of Low Duty-Cycled Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

The Army's Future Combat Systems potentially rely heavily on the efficient use of unattended sensors to detect, identify and track targets in order to enhance situation awareness, agility and survivability. Among different types of sensors, the unattended ground sensors (UGS) are typically deployed and left to self-organize and carry out various sensing, monitoring, surveillance and communication tasks. These sensors are operated on battery power, and energy is not always renewable due to cost, environmental and form size concerns. This imposes a stringent energy constraint on the design of the communication architecture, communication protocols, and the deployment and operation of these sensors. It is thus critical to operate these sensors in a highly energy efficient manner.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA431657

Entities

People

  • Chih-fan Hsin
  • Dongsook Kim
  • Mingyan Liu

Organizations

  • University of Michigan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Computer Science
  • Detectors
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Energy Conservation
  • Engineering
  • Information Operations
  • Networks
  • Phase Transformations
  • Probability
  • Sensor Networks
  • Situational Awareness
  • Wireless Networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.