Title
Disentangling wireless sensing from mesh networking
Abstract
The resource demands of today's wireless mesh networking stacks hinder the progress of low-cost, low-power wireless sensor nodes. Optimizing wireless sensors means reducing costs, increasing lifetimes, and locating sensors close to the action. Adding mesh networking functions like IP routing and forwarding increases RAM and ROM requirements and demands substantial idle listening to forward others' traffic, all of which adds cost and increases power draw. We argue that an architectural separation between sensor and router, similar to what ZigBee and traditional IP networks advocate, would allow each node class to be better optimized to the task, matched to technology trends, and aligned with deployment patterns. Although trivial to implement on current platforms, for example by turning off router advertisements in an IPv6/6LoWPAN stack, reaping the full benefits of this approach requires evolving platform designs and revisiting the link and network layers of the stack. We examine the resulting implications on the system architecture.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1978642.1978646
HotEmNets
Keywords
Field
DocType
demands substantial idle listening,sensor node,wireless mesh networking stack,increases power,disentangling wireless,energy harvesting,ip routing,mesh networking function,system architecture,sensor networks,wireless sensor,router advertisement,traditional ip network,low-power wireless,sensor network,wireless mesh network,mesh network
Service set,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Wireless network,Mesh networking,Switched mesh,Computer network,Wireless mesh network,Engineering,Wireless sensor network,Shared mesh
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.79
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thomas Schmid140740.11
Roy Shea236724.61
Mani Srivastava3130521317.38
P. Dutta43612267.92