Wireless sensor placement for reliable and efficient data collection

Author

Biagioni, Edoardo S. ; Sasaki, Galen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

6-9 Jan. 2003

Abstract

Sensors can be paired with radio units and deployed to form a wireless ad-hoc sensor network. Actual deployments must consider the coverage that can be achieved with a given number of sensors: this coverage varies with the range of the radios and the maximum allowable distance between any point in the area and the nearest sensor. Deployments must also preserve connectivity in spite of possible failure or energy depletion in a subset of the units. This paper presents and analyzes a variety of regular deployment topologies, including circular and star deployments as well as deployments in square, triangular, and hexagonal grids.

Keywords

ad hoc networks; data acquisition; network topology; sensor fusion; wireless sensor networks; circular deployment; data collection; deployment topology; energy depletion; hexagonal grid; radio units; sensor connectivity; square grid; star deployment; triangular grid; wireless ad-hoc sensor network; wireless sensor placement; Base stations; Biosensors; Computer network reliability; Human robot interaction; Relays; Robot sensing systems; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 2003. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1874-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.2003.1174290

Filename

1174290