PioMote: A Hierarchical Mobile Node for Maintaining the End-to-End Communication Links of Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Zhuang, Wei ; Zhang, Yingchao ; Tang, Huiqiang

Author_Institution

Nanjing Univ. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Nanjing, China

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

26-28 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

61

Lastpage

64

Abstract

A two-tier network based mobile node for maintaining the communication links is presented in this paper. The mobile node has sensing, computation, communication and locomotion components assembled by off-the-shelf modules. The proposed mobile node is able to merge IEEE 802.15.4 and IEEE 802.11b/g protocols so as to acquire multimedia signals as well as regular low bandwidth data. The assessment of communication link quality and a simple PID based control scheme are illustrated in this paper as well. Inspired by virtual force method, we exploit RSSI samples as a control feedback factor into locomotion. The experimental results testify the feasibility of proposed method and show that the mobile node is competent for maintaining communication links of wireless sensor networks.

Keywords

mobile communication; multimedia communication; wireless sensor networks; PID based control; PioMote; end-to-end communication; hierarchical mobile node; multimedia signals; off-the-shelf modules; wireless sensor networks; Conferences; Force; Mobile communication; Mobile computing; Robot sensing systems; Wireless sensor networks; RSSI; mobile node; wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Human-Machine Systems and Cybernetics (IHMSC), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Nanjing, Jiangsu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7869-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IHMSC.2010.22

Filename

5590446