Development of a Wireless Sensor Network System for Power Constrained Applications

Author

Khan, Jamil Y. ; Hall, Daniel F. ; Turner, Peter D.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Newcastle Univ., Callaghan, NSW

fYear

2006

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2006

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

150

Abstract

This paper presents an advanced multihop wireless sensor network testbed developed to support a range of distributed computing, control, and communications applications. The testbed uses low cost sensor nodes based upon the IEEE802.15.4 standard to create distributed sensor networks. This paper also introduces simple packet scheduling and routing protocols which enable a wireless sensor network to route information packets using minimum energy, thus prolonging the network´s operational lifetime. The proposed routing protocol is synchronised with the MAC sleep cycle to minimise the total energy used to transmit a packet in a multihop network. This proposal presents some initial energy efficiency performance figures

Keywords

IEEE standards; access protocols; packet radio networks; radio links; routing protocols; wireless sensor networks; IEEE802.15.4 standard; MAC; Zigbee; distributed computing; distributed sensor networks; information packets; multihop network testbed; packet scheduling; power constrained applications; routing protocols; wireless sensor network system; Communication system control; Costs; Distributed computing; Distributed control; Media Access Protocol; Routing protocols; Scheduling algorithm; Spread spectrum communication; Testing; Wireless sensor networks; Distributed Applications; IEEE802.15.4; Routing; Sensor Network; Zigbee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006. APCCAS 2006. IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on

Conference_Location

Singapore

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0387-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2006.342335

Filename

4145353