A spatiotemporal communication protocol for wireless sensor networks

Tian He, John A. Stankovic, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher

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Abstract

In this paper, we present a spatiotemporal communication protocol for sensor networks; called SPEED. SPEED is specifically tailored to be a localized algorithm with minimal control overhead. End-to-end soft real-time communication is achieved by maintaining a desired delivery speed across the sensor network through a novel combination of feedback control and nondeterministic geographic forwarding. SPEED is a highly efficient and scalable protocol for sensor networks where the resources of each node are scarce. Theoretical analysis, simulation experiments, and a real implementation on Berkeley motes are provided to validate the claims.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)995-1006
Number of pages12
JournalIEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Volume16
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2005

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the DAPRPA IXO offices under the NEST project (grant number F336615-01-C-1905), the MURI award N00014-01-1-0576, and US National Science Foundation grant CCR-0098269.

Keywords

  • Geographic forwarding
  • Real-time
  • Routing
  • Spatiotemporal
  • Wireless sensor networks

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