The mote connectivity protocol

Author

Choi, Young-ri ; Gouda, Mohamed G. ; Kim, Moon C. ; Arora, Anish

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Texas Univ., Austin, TX, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

20-22 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

533

Lastpage

538

Abstract

An attractive architecture for sensor networks is to have the sensing devices mounted on small computers, called motes. Motes are battery-powered, and can communicate in a wireless fashion by broadcasting messages over radio frequency. In mote networks, the connectivity of a mote u can be defined by those motes that can receive messages from u with high probability and those motes from which u can receive messages with high probability. In this paper, we describe a protocol that can be triggered by any mote in a mote network in order that each mote in the network computes its connectivity. The protocol is simple and has several energy saving features. We implemented this protocol over TinyOS and discuss the results of some execution runs of this implementation.

Keywords

protocols; radio broadcasting; wireless sensor networks; broadcasting message; mote connectivity protocol; radio frequency; sensing device; sensor network architecture; small computer; Acoustic sensors; Computer architecture; Computer networks; IP networks; Magnetic sensors; Radio broadcasting; Radio frequency; Wireless application protocol; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Communications and Networks, 2003. ICCCN 2003. Proceedings. The 12th International Conference on

ISSN

1095-2055

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7945-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCCN.2003.1284220

Filename

1284220