A self-organizing approach to data forwarding in large-scale sensor networks

Author

Mirkovic, Jelena ; Venkataramani, Geetha Priya ; Lu, Songwu ; Zhang, Lixia

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

1357

Abstract

The large number of networked sensors, frequent sensor failures and stringent energy constraints pose unique design challenges for data forwarding in wireless sensor networks. In this paper, we present a new approach to data forwarding in sensor networks that effectively addresses these design issues. Our approach organizes sensors into a dynamic, self-optimizing multicast tree-based forwarding hierarchy, which is data centric and robust to node failures. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our design through simulations

Keywords

distributed sensors; multicast communication; network topology; protocols; radiotelemetry; telecommunication network reliability; data forwarding; design; dynamic self-optimizing multicast tree-based forwarding hierarchy; energy constraints; large-scale sensor networks; networked sensors; self-organizing approach; sensor failures; wireless sensor networks; Ad hoc networks; Computer networks; Computer science; Intelligent networks; Large-scale systems; Multicast protocols; Robustness; Scalability; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.937143

Filename

937143