Wireless Sensor Network Infrastructure: Construction and Evaluation

Kamal Beydoun (1) , Violeta Felea (1) , Hervé Guyennet (1)

1 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)

Large area wireless sensor deployments rely on multi-hop communications. Efficient packet transmissions and virtual topologies, which structure sensor networks, are two main features for efficient energy management in wireless sensor networks. This paper aims to present a distributed and low-cost topology construction algorithm for wireless sensor networks, addressing the following issues: large-scale, random network deployment, energy efficiency and small overhead. We propose structuring nodes in zones, meant to reduce the global view of the network to a local one. This zone-based architecture is the infrastructure used by our hierarchical routing protocol. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has low overhead and is scalable.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé [cs.DC]; Informatique ubiquitaire

Kamal Beydoun, Violeta Felea, Hervé Guyennet. Wireless Sensor Network Infrastructure: Construction and Evaluation. ICWMC'09, Int. Conf. on Wireless and Mobile Communications, 2009, France. pp.279--284. ⟨hal-00563298⟩