On the interdependence of routing and data compression in multi-hop sensor networks
Proceedings of the 8th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking
A Variable Slot Length TDMA Protocol for Personal Communication Systems
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Timing-sync protocol for sensor networks
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Cross-Layer Energy and Delay Optimization in Small-Scale Sensor Networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
Bandwidth- and power-efficient routing in linear wireless networks
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
IEEE Communications Magazine
MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey
IEEE Communications Magazine
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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is the most promising technological paradigm to support the next generation highly efficient emergency management systems. Optimal design of WSN involves all the layers of the protocol stack: from the physical (PHY), the medium access layer (MAC) to the application layer. The design problem is conveniently cast in this paper for linear sensor network topologies where the terminals are equidistantly placed on the line between the source and the destination and are monitoring a correlated field. This simple topology can be adopted to provide insights to the performance of multihop networks used in several applications as monitoring systems, acoustic sensor arrays, seismic systems etc... The paper provides an analytical tool for performance analysis that takes into account both the statistical properties of the monitored field (spatial and temporal correlation), the PHY layer transceiver design (RF power allocation and modulation) and the medium access (duty cycle, routing).