Distributed velocity-dependent protocol for multihop cellular sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Deepthi Chander;Bhushan Jagyasi;U. B. Desai;S. N. Merchant

  • Affiliations:
  • SPANN Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India;TCS Innovation Labs Mumbai, Tata Consultancy Services, Thane, India;Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Ordnance Factory Estate, Yeddumailaram, Andhra Pradesh, India;SPANN Lab, Electrical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai, India

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Cell phones are embedded with sensors form a Cellular Sensor Network which can be used to localize a moving event. The inherent mobility of the application and of the cell phone users warrants distributed structure-free data aggregation and on-thefly routing. We propose a Distributed Velocity-Dependent (DVD) protocol to localize a moving event using a Multihop Cellular Sensor Network (MCSN). DVD is based on a novel form of connectivity determined by the waiting time of nodes for a Random Waypoint (RWP) distribution of cell phone users. This paper analyzes the time-stationary and spatial distribution of the proposed waiting time to explain the superior event localization and delay performances of DVD over the existing Randomized Waiting (RW) protocol. A sensitivity analysis is also performed to compare the performance of DVD with RW and the existing Centralized approach.