FISCO: A Fully Integrated Scheme of Self-Configuration and Self-Organization for WSN

To enable spontaneous communications in wireless sensors networks, both self-configuration and self-organization appear to be two fundamental mechanisms. However, the majority of prior contributions in ad hoc network suffer from the low processing capability, limited storage space, energy constraint and large number of nodes when being applied in wireless sensor networks. Moreover, self-configuration and self-organization have been always considered as two independent mechanisms. The authors believe that this consideration leads to inefficient network and redundant protocol cost. Hence, in this paper a fully integrated scheme of self-configuration and self-organization was proposed. It can better resolve the distributed address allocation using the structure generated by itself with low message overhead. It also provides significant energy savings comparing to other schemes and low latency.