Paper Info
Title
A small world model to improve synchronization algorithms for wireless sensor networks
Abstract
In wireless sensor networks, there are some network functions and applications that need to know the local time of a node in order to timestamp a sensed data. In general, it may be unfeasible to have a synchronization hardware in each sensor. In this work, we propose a heterogeneous wireless sensor network model based on small world concepts to improve synchronization algorithms for wireless sensor networks. This improvement has two goals: (i) reduce the synchronization error for large wireless sensor networks, and (ii) increase the resilience of synchronization algorithms in the presence of node failures. Therefore, we modified and evaluated the Flooding Time Synchronization Protocol in the proposed model. Simulation results show that the use of small world based models in wireless sensor networks can significantly reduce the synchronization error and also increase the resilience in the synchronization problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ISCC.2010.5546572
ISCC
Keywords
Field
DocType
sensor network model,network function,large wireless,synchronization error,small world model,wireless sensor network,synchronization hardware,sensor network,synchronization problem,synchronization algorithm,heterogeneous wireless,synchronisation,wireless sensor networks,small world networks,small world network,local time,synchronization,protocols
Wireless network,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Synchronization,Computer science,Data synchronization,Computer network,Real-time computing,Mobile wireless sensor network,Heterogeneous network,Wi-Fi array,Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1530-1346
978-1-4244-7754-8
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
7
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Daniel L. Guidoni120523.49
Azzedine Boukerche24301418.60
Horacio A. B. F. De Oliveira322114.40
Raquel A. F. Mini424823.58
Antonio Loureiro52406197.77