Title :
6LoWpan-based tactical wireless sensor network architecture for remote large-scale random deployment scenarios
Author :
Song, Heecheol ; Lee, Sang Hyuk ; Lee, Soobin ; Lee, Hwang Soo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
Abstract :
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) for tactical environments have been considered as the fundamentals for realizing the future combat system (FCS) supporting network-centric warfare (NCW). Much research related to tactical WSN architecture has been conducted. However, a research about randomly distributed WSNs for military tactical scenarios considering functionalities from bootstrap to data transmission has not been considered yet. In this paper, we describe a 6LoWPAN (IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks)-based military WSN architecture for remote wide areas of specific tactical interests in which sensor nodes are randomly distributed. The network architecture is designed based on tactical WSN requirements for the target application scenario and key functionalities for satisfying these requirements, such as self-organization, address auto-configuration, hierarchical multi-hop routing protocol, and header compression.
Keywords :
IP networks; military communication; personal area networks; wireless sensor networks; 6LoWpan-based tactical wireless sensor network architecture; IP network; IPv6 over low-power wireless personal area networks; address autoconfiguration; data transmission; future combat system; header compression; hierarchical multihop routing protocol; low-power wireless personal area networks; military tactical scenarios; network-centric warfare; remote large-scale random deployment scenarios; Large-scale systems; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Military Communications Conference, 2009. MILCOM 2009. IEEE
Conference_Location :
Boston, MA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5238-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5239-2
DOI :
10.1109/MILCOM.2009.5379823
