MobileDeluge: Mobile Code Dissemination for Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper we present MobileDeluge, a general mobile network-reprogramming tool based on Deluge for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). MobileDeluge effectively addresses the weaknesses of Deluge and other traditional over-the-air reprogramming approaches for WSNs. It enables efficient code dissemination for heterogeneous WSN motes regularly operating over low-power links through a mobile base station. We evaluate the performance of MobileDeluge via both laboratory experiments and a real-world outdoor environmental WSN testbed. Results show that our proposed MobileDeluge leads to a significant improvement of the performance compared to the original Deluge for WSNs operating over low-power links.