Title
Long range wireless sensor networks using transmit-only nodes
Abstract
Wireless sensor networks for environmental monitoring and agricultural applications often face long-range requirements at low bit-rates together with large numbers of nodes. Most existing wireless sensor networks use nodes with a short-range radio and use software protocols to schedule the nodes and co-ordinate multi-hop routing in order to minimise power usage. Nodes have a relatively small radio range up to a few hundred meters that is also affected by the crop growth stage and vegetation density [2]. Disadvantages of this approach include the complexity of software protocols required to co-ordinate the nodes' behaviour and the unreliable nature of the short range radio links that requires sophisticated fault tolerance mechanisms. An alternative design solution is to use low frequency, long-range radios to build a single-hop network of a base station with satellite sensing nodes [4]. This approach has the benefits of much simpler software protocols, and that transmissions in the 40 MHz band are expected to be more reliable in outdoor settings than short range transmission in the 433 MHz or 915 MHz band used by most existing sensor network radios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1145/1869983.1870052
SenSys
Keywords
Field
DocType
software protocol,small radio range,long range,short range transmission,short range radio link,short-range radio,simpler software protocol,transmit-only node,sensor network,long-range radio,mhz band,existing sensor network radio,fault tolerant,low frequency,base station,sensor networks,wireless sensor network
Sensor node,Base station,Wireless network,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Computer science,Computer network,Real-time computing,Fault tolerance,Software,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.54
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christof Huebner1143.17
Stefan Hanelt250.91
Tino Wagenknecht350.91
Rachel Cardell-Oliver427133.25
Alvaro Monsalve561.60