Routing, Energy and Decentralized Decisions

Abstract

Sensor Network Architecture and Layering: *Sensor network exists typically to do one thing (All custom built.) *Expensive to pretend sensor is a general purpose computer *Reduce costs and improve performance by eliminating unneeded functionality *Layering is original sin of networking *We have little idea how else to build a network *While we gain experience, we maintain most of layering, with a few optimizations. Conclusions: *Sensor network doing event detection studied. Trying to optimize (a) accuracy of detection, and (b) network lifetime. *Cross-layer optimizations: achieved through routing metric: routing interacts with data aggregation (application) and with battery level (physical layer) *Routing appears to be a convenient place for layers to interact.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA485267

Entities

People

  • Anthony Ephremides
  • Steven A. Borbash

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Accuracy
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Energy Conservation
  • Event Detection
  • Information Operations
  • Military Research
  • Network Architecture
  • Networks
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Sensor Networks
  • Simulations
  • Universities
  • Wireless Networks
  • Wireless Sensor Networks

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Networking
  • Systems Analysis and Design