Hierarchical range sectoring and bidirectional link quality estimation for on-demand collections in WSNs

The paper presents two mechanisms for designing an on-demand, reliable and efficient collection protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. The former is the Bidirectional Link Quality Estimation, which allows nodes to easily and quickly compute the quality of a link between a pair of nodes. The latter,...

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Autores: Valls, Victor, Sánchez, José Luis, Cano Bastidas, Cristina, Bellalta, Boris, Oliver Riera, Miquel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/56630
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56630
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2012.09.007
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:WSNs
Collection protocols
Hidden terminal
On-demand
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Sumario:The paper presents two mechanisms for designing an on-demand, reliable and efficient collection protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. The former is the Bidirectional Link Quality Estimation, which allows nodes to easily and quickly compute the quality of a link between a pair of nodes. The latter, Hierarchical Range Sectoring, organizes sensors in different sectors based on their location within the network. Based on this organization, nodes from each sector are coordinated to transmit in specific periods of time to reduce the hidden terminal problem. To evaluate these two mechanisms, a protocol called HBCP (Hierarchical-Based Collection Protocol), that implements both mechanisms, has been implemented in TinyOS 2.1, and evaluated in a testbed using TelosB motes. The results show that the HBCP protocol is able to achieve a very high reliability, especially in large networks and in scenarios with bottlenecks.