Scalable Infrastructure for Distributed Sensor Networks By Krishnendu Chakrabarty and S. S. Iyengar
Advances in the miniaturization of microelectromechanical systems have led to battery-powered sensor nodes that have sensing, communication and processing capabilities. These sensor nodes can be networked in an ad hoc manner to perform distributed sensing and information processing. Such ad hoc sensor networks provide greater fault tolerance and sensing accuracy and are typically less expensive compared to the alternative of using only a few large isolated sensors. These networks can also be deployed in inhospitable terrains or in hostile environments to provide continuous monitoring and processing capabilities.
A typical sensor network application is inventory tracking in factory warehouses. A single sensor node can be attached to each item in the warehouse. These sensor nodes can then be used for tracking the location of the items as they are moved within the warehouse. They can also provide information on the location of nearby items as well as the history of movement of various items. Once deployed, the sensor network needs very little human intervention and can function autonomously. Another typical application of sensor networks lies in military situations. Sensor nodes can be air-dropped behind enemy lines or in inhospitable terrain. These nodes can self-organize themselves and provide unattended monitoring of the deployed area by gathering information about enemy defenses and equipment, movement of troops, and areas of troop concentration. They can then relay this information back to a friendly base station for further processing and decision making.
Sensor nodes are typically characterized by small form-factor, limited battery power, and a small amount of memory. Due to their limited resources, many of the methods developed for the Internet and mobile ad hoc networks cannot be directly applied to sensor networks. A scalable infrastructure is to solve problems such as data routing, self-organization and data dissemination that emerge in sensor networks. This book is focused on a scalable infrastructure for information processing in wireless sensor networks. It addresses the problems of coverage-centric sensor deployment, energy-efficient self-organization, target localization, information dissemination, data routing, and time synchronization.
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