Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
A survey of addressing algorithms for wireless sensor networks
WiCOM'09 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Wireless communications, networking and mobile computing
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Sensor Networks have applications in diverse fields. They can be deployed for habitat modeling, temperature monitoring and industrial sensing. They also find applications in battlefield awareness and emergency (first) response situations. While unique addressing is not a requirement of many data collecting applications of wireless sensor networks it is vital for the success of applications such as emergency response. Data that cannot be associated with a specific node becomes useless in such situations. In this work we propose an addressing mechanism for event-driven wireless sensor networks. The proposed scheme eliminates the need for network wide Duplicate Address Detection (DAD) and enables reuse of addresses.