Scalable topology control for deployment-support networks

Author

Beutel, Jan ; Dyer, Matthias ; Meier, Lennart ; Thiele, Lothar

Author_Institution

Comput. Eng. & Networks Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Lausanne, Switzerland

fYear

2005

fDate

38457

Firstpage

359

Lastpage

363

Abstract

Deployment-support networks (DSNs) have been proposed as a novel tool for the development, test, deployment, and validation of wireless sensor networks. They are expected to enhance scalability and flexibility in deployment by eliminating cable connections. In this paper, we describe our implementation of a DSN, giving details on the algorithms for topology control and maintenance. We provide various measurements of DSNs spanning up to 71 BTnode rev3 devices, featuring the largest Bluetooth scatternet reported to date. We also discuss our experience gained in the development and experimentation. Our results strongly suggest that our implementation scales well to a large number of nodes.

Keywords

Bluetooth; microcontrollers; telecommunication network topology; wireless sensor networks; 71 BTnode rev3 device; Bluetooth scatternet; DSN; deployment-support network; network maintenance; scalable topology control; wireless sensor network; Bluetooth; Cables; Computer networks; Debugging; Laboratories; Monitoring; Network topology; Scalability; Testing; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Processing in Sensor Networks, 2005. IPSN 2005. Fourth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9201-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPSN.2005.1440949

Filename

1440949