Fountain reprogramming protocol (FRP): a reliable data dissemination scheme for wireless sensor networks using fountain codes

  • Authors:
  • Riccardo Crepaldi;Albert Harris, III;Michele Rossi;Giovanni Zanca;Michele Zorzi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign;University of Illinois at Urbana--Champaign;University of Padova, Italy;University of Padova, Italy;University of Padova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Wireless sensor network technologies enable a wide variety of applications (e.g., environmental monitoring). Such sensor networks are often deployed in regions that make it difficult to collect and redistribute the nodes for maintenance. However, there is often a need to reprogram all of the nodes in the network, either during application test phases on deployed networks, or to support software upgrades. Therefore, a reliable method of sending a relatively large amount of data to each node in the network is required to support these functions.