An Interoperability Framework for Sensor and UMTS Networks

This paper contributes to this effort by introducing a new framework for moving data from a sink to the user at a low cost and power, using the universal mobile telecommunication system (UMTS), which is standard for the third generation mobile system (3G). Much of the research on sensor networks focuses on issues such as power consumption, self-organization, routing, and communication between sensors and the sink. On the other hand, there is little research on facilitating communication between a sink and the user. The integration of the mobile network infrastructure and sensor networks will reduce the cost of building new infrastructure and enable the large-scale deployment of sensor networks.