Title
SOFA: Communication in Extreme Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Sensor networks can nowadays deliver 99.9% of their data with duty cycles below 1%. This remarkable performance is, however, dependent on some important underlying assumptions: low traffic rates, medium size densities and static nodes. In this paper, we investigate the performance of these same resource-constrained devices, but under scenarios that present extreme conditions: high traffic rates, high densities and mobility. To cope with these stringent requirements, we propose a novel communication protocol named SOFA (Stop On First Ack). SOFA utilizes opportunistic anycast to drastically reduce the rendezvous times of asynchronous duty cycled nodes —long rendezvous times are the key limitation of protocols operating under high densities and high traffic conditions. SOFA is also stateless, which makes it resilient to mobility. We implemented SOFA in the Contiki OS and tested it both in simulation and on a 100-node testbed. Our results show that SOFA reliably communicates in mobile networks with extreme densities (hundreds of nodes) and higher traffic rates (packets per second) while maintaining a low duty cycle (≠﾿2%). Under these extreme conditions, current duty cycled protocols collapse.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1007/978-3-319-04651-8_7
EWSN
Field
DocType
Volume
Asynchronous communication,Duty cycle,Computer science,Network packet,Testbed,Computer network,Real-time computing,Rendezvous,Anycast,Wireless sensor network,Communications protocol
Conference
8354
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
4
0.43
References 
Authors
17
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Marco Cattani1475.11
Marco Zuniga286762.79
Matthias Woehrle319421.93
Koen Langendoen43372285.21