WR_grid: a scalable cross-layer infrastructure for routing, multi-dimensional data management and replication in wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Gabriele Monti;Gianluca Moro;Claudio Sartori

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Cesena (FC), Italy;Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Cesena (FC), Italy;Dept. of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems, University of Bologna, Bologna (BO), Italy

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'06 Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In this paper we propose a fully decentralized cross-layer infrastructure that creates self-organizing networks where wireless communications occur through multi-hop routing among sensors. The resulting sensor network is able to efficiently index and query multi-dimensional data without reliance either on Global Positioning System (GPS) or flooding/broadcasting operations. It does not suffer from the dead-end problem, which occurs in geographic-based approaches, and both routing and querying operations can scale to large/dense sensor networks. The efficiency and robustness of resulting sensor networks is controlled through a data replication strategy, which helps also in balancing the energy consumption among devices by distributing the workload among them.