Reliable multihop remote sensing and control using wireless sensor and actor networks

Author

Kambhatla, Kashyap K R ; Kumar, Sunil ; Matyjas, John D.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., San Diego State Univ., San Diego, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

16-19 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper we discuss a novel multihop transport scheme for wireless sensor and actor networks (WSAN) that facilitates (a) reliable multihop data packet transmission from the sensor nodes to a centralized controller (sink), and (b) reliable multihop control packet transmission from the sink to different actor nodes. The transport scheme works on a model of prioritized packet store-and-forward mechanism which enables important information to reach its destination with minimum delay. We also employ congestion avoidance and control mechanism. Simulations are conducted using network simulator (ns-2) tool to study the performance of the proposed scheme.

Keywords

centralised control; remote sensing; telecommunication control; wireless sensor networks; centralized controller; multihop control packet transmission; multihop data packet transmission; multihop transport scheme; reliable multihop remote sensing; wireless actor networks; wireless sensor network; Centralized control; Communication system traffic control; Computer network reliability; Force control; Frequency; Intelligent sensors; Remote sensing; Spread spectrum communication; Transport protocols; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Military Communications Conference, 2008. MILCOM 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2676-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2677-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MILCOM.2008.4753641

Filename

4753641