A Communication Mechanism using Traveling Wave Phenomena for Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Taniguchi, Yoshiaki ; Wakamiya, Naoki ; Murata, Masayuki

Author_Institution

Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan, y-tanigu@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 June 2007

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

In this paper, we propose and evaluate a self-organizing communication mechanism for wireless sensor networks where a large number of sensor nodes are deployed. To accomplish application-oriented periodic communication without any centralized controls, we adopt traveling wave phenomena of a pulse-coupled oscillator model by regarding sensor nodes as oscillators and emission of radio signals as firing. Through simulation experiments, we confirm that our mechanism delivers sensor information to / from a designated node in a more energy-efficient manner than other method, although it takes time to generate a traveling wave. In addition, we implement our mechanism using MOTE MICAz and verify its practicality.

Keywords

Capacitive sensors; Centralized control; Energy efficiency; Fires; Frequency synchronization; Information science; Oscillators; Robustness; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks, 2007. WoWMoM 2007. IEEE International Symposium on a

Conference_Location

Espoo, Finland

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0993-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-0993-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WOWMOM.2007.4351798

Filename

4351798