Energy Balanced Topology for Sensor Networks

ISBN-13: 9783639128178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 228 str.

Kazi Muheymin Sakib

Opis

Recent advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems(MEMS) and low-power short-range radios have enabledrapid development of wireless sensor networks. Future sensor networks are anticipated to includehundreds or thousands of these devices in manyapplications, such as capturing multimedia contentfor surveillance, structural health monitoring,tracking of accidental chemical leaks, machinefailures, earthquakes and intrusion detection. With the increase of sensor applications, a number ofchallenging problems related to the network protocoldesign have emerged - the most important onesrelating to scalability, energy efficiency andlifetime maximisation. Techniques devised for sensornetworks should be scalable to deal with a largenumber of sensors distributed in the field. Wirelesssensor nodes are deployed with limited energyreserves, so the networks should operate with minimumenergy overhead. In fact, the network should takeinto account not only individual nodes energyefficiency but also consider the global picture,because surviving nodes energy reserves in a failednetwork are wasted energy.

O autorze

Kazi Muheymin Sakib received his Ph.D. in 2008 from the
RMIT University, Melbourne. He has been working as a faculty in
the Institute of Information Technology, University of Dhaka,
Bangladesh from 2003. Kazi is also a member of the Distributed
Systems and Networking group and his research interest includes
ad-hoc and wireless sensor networks.