Directed diffusion for wireless sensor networking
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
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Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Approximate Aggregation Techniques for Sensor Databases
ICDE '04 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Data Engineering
Synopsis diffusion for robust aggregation in sensor networks
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
TAG: a Tiny AGgregation service for Ad-Hoc sensor networks
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Tributaries and deltas: efficient and robust aggregation in sensor network streams
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IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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The goal of Wireless Sensor Networks is to extract useful global information from individual sensor readings, which are typically collected and aggregated over a spanning tree. However, the spanning tree structure is not robust against communication errors; a low-quality (i.e., high-error-rate) wireless link close to the tree root may result in a high rate of global information loss. Therefore, many schemes have been proposed to achieve fault-tolerant aggregation. Intuitively, using timely link-quality information, which is gathered by continuous monitoring and error-rate measurement of network links, improves the performance of fault-tolerant aggregation schemes. In this paper, we show that this intuition is not always true. In particular, we show that using link-quality information in an intuitive but wrong way results in degraded performance in some schemes, and therefore, care should be taken in using link-quality information. We also show that some schemes make better usage of link-quality information than others, and some schemes are more robust to errors in link-quality estimation than others. We support our findings by an extensive simulation study, and we focus on the (more general) class of fault-tolerant duplicate-sensitive aggregation schemes.