ExScal: Elements of an Extreme Scale Wireless Sensor Network

  • Authors:
  • Anish Arora;Rajiv Ramnath;Emre Ertin;Prasun Sinha;Sandip Bapat;Vinayak Naik;Vinod Kulathumani;Hongwei Zhang;Hui Cao;Mukundan Sridharan;Santosh Kumar;Nick Seddon;Chris Anderson;Ted Herman;Nishank Trivedi;Chen Zhang;Mikhail Nesterenko;Romil Shah;Sandeep Kulkarni;Mahesh Aramugam;Limin Wang;Mohamed Gouda;Young-ri Choi;David Culler;Prabal Dutta;Cory Sharp;Gilman Tolle;Mike Grimmer;Bill Ferriera;Ken Parker

  • Affiliations:
  • Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;Ohio State University;University of Iowa;University of Iowa;University of Iowa;Kent State University;Kent State University;Michigan State University;Michigan State University;Michigan State University;University of Texas at Austin;University of Texas at Austin;University of California at Berkeley;University of California at Berkeley;University of California at Berkeley;University of California at Berkeley;Crossbow;Crossbow;Mitre Corporation

  • Venue:
  • RTCSA '05 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Project ExScal (for Extreme Scale) fielded a 1000+ node wireless sensor network and a 200+ node peer-to-peer ad hoc network of 802.11 devices in a 1.3km by 300m remote area in Florida, USA during December 2004. In comparison with previous deployments, the ExScal application is relatively complex and its networks are the largest ones of either type fielded to date. In this paper, we overview the key requirements of ExScal, the corresponding design of the hardware/software platform and application, and some results of our experiments.