Title
RES: A Robust and Efficient Snapshot Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have been widely used in natural environment monitoring, military, health care, human life and other fields. Distributed snapshot, i.e. the global view/state of the whole system, is a fundamental block for many network control and data processing operations in WSNs. Although there have been quite a number of snapshot algorithms proposed, most of them are designed for traditional network environments. The characteristics of WSN in resource constraints, communication link and network topology require delicately new design. In this paper, we propose a new snapshot algorithm, named RES, which can tolerate packet loss with efficient communication cost. Basically, RES is executed based on the level of a node, which is determined by the hop count to the sink node. The snapshot query and snapshot data are propagated level by level. To tolerate packet loss, a node sends a packet by local broadcasting to all neighbors, to reduce communication cost, the feedback packet from lower level nodes will be merged with replicated data removed. Our design even does not require the knowledge of node constitution and neighborhood in prior, which makes RES more practical, especially for networks with high dynamics. We conduct extensive simulations via OMNET++ to evaluate the performance of RES and compare it with similar algorithms. The results show that RES can save both communication and time cost, and it can tolerate packet losses efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICDCSW.2012.31
ICDCS Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
efficient communication cost,communication cost,new snapshot algorithm,node constitution,snapshot query,snapshot data,lower level node,efficient snapshot algorithm,packet loss,feedback packet,wireless sensor networks,communication link,fault tolerance,military,network topology,cost efficiency,snapshot algorithm,broadcasting,health care,algorithm design and analysis,data processing,robustness,measurement,wireless sensor network
Broadcasting,Algorithm design,Snapshot algorithm,Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Packet loss,Network topology,Snapshot (computer storage),Wireless sensor network,Distributed computing
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei-Gang Wu142548.87
Haiqing Liu220.39
Hejun Wu324223.03