Title
Opening the sensornet black box
Abstract
We argue that the principal cause of sensornet deployment and development difficulty is an inability to observe a network's internal operation. We further argue that this lack of visibility is due to the activity and resource constraints enforced by limited energy. We present the Mote Network (MNet) architecture, which elevates visibility to be its dominant design principle. We propose a quantitative metric for network visibility and explain why network isolation and fairness are critical concerns. We describe the Fair Waiting Protocol (FWP), MNet's single-hop protocol and show how its fairness and isolation can improve throughput and efficiency. We present the Pull Collection Protocol as a case study in designing multihop protocols in the architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1317103.1317106
SIGBED Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
development difficulty,network isolation,dominant design principle,internal operation,critical concern,pull collection protocol,network visibility,fair waiting protocol,mote network,sensornet black box,case study
Black box (phreaking),Architecture,Dominant design,Visibility,Software deployment,Computer science,Network isolation,Real-time computing,Throughput,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
4
3
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.80
29
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jung Il Choi195679.60
Jung Woo Lee213113.74
Megan Wachs31259.03
Philip Levis45510414.57