Exposing resource tradeoffs in region-based communication abstractions for sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Matt Welsh

  • Affiliations:
  • Harvard University

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

We argue that communication abstractions for wireless sensor networks should expose the tradeoff between accuracy and resource usage, allowing applications to adapt to changing network conditions and tune energy and bandwidth requirements. We describe abstract regions, a family of spatial operators that capture local communication with regions of the network, which may be defined in terms of radio connectivity, geographic location, or other properties of nodes. Abstract regions provide feedback on the quality of collective operations, and expose an interface for tuning resource consumption. We present the implementation of abstract regions in the TinyOS programming environment, as well as preliminary results demonstrating their use of building adaptive sensor network applications.