{"title":"/spl mu/-MAC: an energy-efficient medium access control for wireless sensor networks","authors":"A. Barroso, U. Roedig, C. Sreenan","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462000","url":null,"abstract":"For the long-term deployment of wireless sensor networks, energy efficient MAC protocols are necessary. The transceiver of a sensor node should only consume energy while actively taking part in communication. Energy consumption in idle mode should be avoided as much as possible. In this paper it is shown how application layer knowledge in the form of flow specifications can be used to improve the energy properties of a MAC protocol. A new protocol, named /spl mu/-MAC, is proposed and evaluated through simulations.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121805629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A biologically-inspired clustering algorithm dependent on spatial data in sensor networks","authors":"I. Wokoma, L. L. Shum, L. Sacks, I. Marshall","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462030","url":null,"abstract":"Sensor networks in environmental monitoring applications aim to provide scientists with a useful spatio-temporal representation of the observed phenomena. This helps to deepen their understanding of the environmental signals that cover large geographic areas. In this paper, the spatial aspect of this data handling requirement is met by creating clusters in a sensor network based on the rate of change of an oceanographic signal with respect to space. Inspiration was drawn from quorum sensing, a biological process that is carried out within communities of bacterial cells. The paper demonstrates the control the user has over the sensitivity of the algorithm to the data variation and the energy consumption of the nodes while they run the algorithm.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125028208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Localizing a sensor network via collaborative processing of global stimuli","authors":"M. Broxton, J. Lifton, J. Paradiso","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462024","url":null,"abstract":"In order for nodes in a sensor network to meaningfully correlate their sensor readings, they must first determine their position in a globally shared coordinate system. Though there are many approaches which are suitable for achieving localization in the general case, sensor nodes are uniquely suited to use their sensing capabilities to aid them in this task. Global events which are detected in the environment surrounding the sensor network can serve as points of correspondence which, through collaborative processing on the network, provide nodes with sufficient information to compute their position. We have implemented an algorithm based on this approach in the Pushpin Computing sensor network: a dense, 55 node network which is spread over an area of 0.5 square meters. By queuing off of the minimum number of ultrasound pulses and light flashes needed to determine 2D coordinates using a simple lateration approach, we show that nodes in the Pushpin network can compute their position with an average error of 5-cm and a error standard deviation of 3-cm. In this paper we present this localization system and characterize its accuracy in our hardware testbed.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"2 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130082064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Design of an application-cooperative management system for wireless sensor networks","authors":"Gilman Tolle, D. Culler","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462004","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues for the usefulness of an application-cooperative interactive management system for wireless sensor networks and presents SNMS, a sensor network management system. SNMS is designed to be simple and have minimal impact on memory and network traffic, while remaining open and flexible. The system is evaluated in light of issues derived from real deployment experiences.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127096360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remote incremental linking for energy-efficient reprogramming of sensor networks","authors":"J. Koshy, R. Pandey","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462027","url":null,"abstract":"With sensor networks expected to be deployed for long periods of time, the ability to reprogram them remotely is necessary for providing new services, fixing bugs and enhancing applications and system software. Given the envisioned scales of future sensor network deployments, their restricted accessibility and the limited energy and computing resources of sensors, transmitting raw binary images is inefficient. We present a technique to minimize the cost of application evolution by remotely and incrementally linking updated modules at the base station and distributing deltas of the prelinked software modules. This paper provides details of our implementation, some preliminary results and surveys critical research issues in developing a comprehensive framework for reprogramming sensor networks.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"131 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127376480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tilemahos Hasiotis, George Alyfantis, V. Tsetsos, O. Sekkas, S. Hadjiefthymiades
{"title":"Sensation: a middleware integration platform for pervasive applications in wireless sensor networks","authors":"Tilemahos Hasiotis, George Alyfantis, V. Tsetsos, O. Sekkas, S. Hadjiefthymiades","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462028","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we focus on the issue of application development for wireless sensor networks (WSN). Currently, such networks are extensively used in various business domains. However, their highly customized operating systems and application middleware render the application development for multiple WSNs rather cumbersome. Applications based on multiple WSNs are typical in the emerging pervasive computing paradigm adopted in numerous domains (e.g., telemedicine). A WSN can be considered as a source of information similarly to a database. Motivated by the layered driver approach introduced in the ODBC/JDBC frameworks, we propose a middleware integration architecture. Our architecture presents a unified and developer-friendly interface and abstract data model towards the application. Such interface conceals the peculiarities of the underlying WSNs as their coordination and data retrieval software is integrated in the lower layer of the proposed middleware framework. We present the design of the discussed architecture that is based on open standards like XML.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"16 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116912527","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PCSMAC: a power controlled sensor-MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks","authors":"Pelin C. Nar, E. Cayirci","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462001","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a new power controlled contention-based MAC protocol is introduced for wireless sensor networks where sensor nodes can adjust their transmission power level on a per-frame basis. The main contribution of our work is to enable power controlled transmission of RTS, CTS, DATA and ACK frames while preserving the collision and overhearing avoidance properties of a MAC protocol where these frames are transmitted at the maximum power. Experimental results show that the power controlled sensor MAC protocol reduces the energy consumption by 30-99% comparing to the conventional sensor MAC protocol.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"275 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122756492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Algorithm for optimizing energy use and path resilience in sensor networks","authors":"L. Bush, C. Carothers, B. Szymanski","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462031","url":null,"abstract":"Sensor networks will change the way computers interface with our world and with each other. This transformation will be shaped by the network centric paradigm demonstrated in sensor networks. Sensor networks also require a data-centric communication paradigm to efficiently and effectively share data. Directed diffusion is a data-centric communication paradigm that forms a foundation of this paper. Energy efficient routing algorithms have been developed for directed diffusion; however, we have developed improved algorithms, which are described in this paper. We also present computer simulation results, which verify the effectiveness of previously established routing algorithms and compare them to our new and improved routing algorithms. The results show significant increase in energy efficiency and resilience. Finally, the paper incorporates effective techniques for modeling of sensor networks to demonstrate the usefulness of the new algorithms.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"656 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116644318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Marrón, A. Lachenmann, D. Minder, J. Hähner, R. Sauter, K. Rothermel
{"title":"TinyCubus: a flexible and adaptive framework sensor networks","authors":"P. Marrón, A. Lachenmann, D. Minder, J. Hähner, R. Sauter, K. Rothermel","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462020","url":null,"abstract":"With the proliferation of sensor networks and sensor network applications, the overall complexity of such systems is continuously increasing. Sensor networks are now heterogeneous in terms of their hardware characteristics and application requirements even within a single network. In addition, the requirements of currently supported applications are expected to change over time. All of this makes developing, deploying and optimizing sensor network applications an extremely difficult task. In this paper, we present the architecture of TinyCubus, a flexible and adaptive cross-layer framework for TinyOS-based sensor networks that aims at providing the necessary infrastructure to cope with the complexity of such systems. TinyCubus consists of a data management framework that selects and adapts both system and data management components, a cross-layer framework that enables optimizations through cross-layer interactions, and a configuration engine that installs components dynamically. Furthermore, we show the feasibility of our architecture by describing and evaluating a code distribution algorithm that uses application knowledge about the sensor topology in order to optimize its behavior.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126824759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CORMOS: a communication-oriented runtime system for sensor networks","authors":"J. Yannakopoulos, A. Bilas","doi":"10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/EWSN.2005.1462026","url":null,"abstract":"Recently there has been a lot of activity in building sensor prototypes with processing and communication capabilities. Early efforts in this area focused on building the devices themselves and on understanding network issues. An issue that has not received as much attention is generic runtime system support. In this paper, we present CORMOS, a communication-oriented runtime system for sensor networks. CORMOS is tailored: (i) to provide easy-to-use abstractions and treat communication as a first class citizen rather than an extension, (ii) to be highly modular with unified application and system interfaces, and (iii) to deal with sensor limitations on concurrency and memory. We describe the design of CORMOS, discuss various design alternatives, and provide a prototype implementation on a real system. We present preliminary results for resource requirements of CORMOS using a pair of sensor devices. We find that the runtime system and a simple network stack can fit in 5.5 KBytes of program memory, occupying about 130 Bytes of RAM. On the specific devices we use, the system is able to process events at a rate of 2500 events/sec. When communicating over the radio transceiver, CORMOS achieves a maximum rate of 20 packets/sec.","PeriodicalId":426477,"journal":{"name":"Proceeedings of the Second European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks, 2005.","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123593986","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}