A Mechanism to Structure Mission-Aware Interaction in Mobile Sensor Networks

Authors:
Michel Charpentier;Radim Bartoš;Swapnil Bhatia
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA;Department of Computer Science, University of New Hampshire, Durham, USA
Venue:
ICDCN '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking
Year:
2009

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Abstract

One of the main appeals of mobile sensors is the variety of environments in which they can operate as an autonomous network. Different environments, however, present different challenges, especially in terms of inter-sensor communication. In sparse environments, it may not be possible to maintain full connectivity at all times, setting off the need for agents to communicate opportunistically when they are close to each other. This, in turn, suggests that communication needs be taken into account in the design of agents' trajectories. In this paper, we introduce a notion of tour and meeting point as an abstraction of trajectories designed for both sensing and communication, and we study the tradeoffs involved between motion to sense and sample and motion to communicate and interact.