Title :
Geographic Routing in Distributed Sensor Systems without Location Information
Author :
Yu, Bin ; Sycara, Katia
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
Abstract :
Geographic routing protocols have been widely used in microsensor networks, however, they cannot directly apply to distributed mobile sensor systems as mobile sensors often do not know their neighbors´ exact physical locations. In this paper we consider geographic routing in distributed sensor systems without location information. We address the problem by introducing a lightweight and distributed virtual coordinate assignment protocol. We focus on the effectiveness of routing algorithms for distributed data fusion in the system and provide a detailed analysis of several routing algorithms for a sensor system with group mobility. Our simulation results show that controlled data flows significantly increase the probability of relevant data being fused
Keywords :
mobile radio; probability; routing protocols; sensor fusion; wireless sensor networks; data fusion; distributed sensor system; geographic routing; group mobility; lightweight protocol; microsensor network; probability; virtual coordinate assignment protocol; Algorithm design and analysis; Computational modeling; Computer science; Microsensors; Mobile computing; Routing protocols; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Sensor systems; Surveillance; Tree graphs; data fusion; distributed sensor systems; geographic routing;
Conference_Titel :
Information Fusion, 2006 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Florence
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0953-5
Electronic_ISBN :
0-9721844-6-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICIF.2006.301633
