Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks / Edition 1

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0470519231
ISBN-13:
9780470519233
Pub. Date:
10/08/2007
Publisher:
Wiley
ISBN-10:
0470519231
ISBN-13:
9780470519233
Pub. Date:
10/08/2007
Publisher:
Wiley
Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks / Edition 1

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks / Edition 1

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Overview

Learn all you need to know about wireless sensor networks!

Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks.

The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into perspective with one and other.  Numerous practical examples, case studies and illustrations demonstrate the theory, techniques and results presented.  The clear chapter structure, listing learning objectives, outline and summarizing key points, help guide the reader expertly through the material.

 Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks:            

  • Covers architecture and communications protocols in detail with practical implementation examples and case studies.
  • Provides an understanding of mutual relationships and dependencies between different protocols and architectural decisions.
  • Offers an in-depth investigation of relevant protocol mechanisms. 
  • Shows which protocols are suitable for which tasks within a wireless sensor network and in which circumstances they perform efficiently. 
  • Features an extensive website with the bibliography, PowerPoint slides, additional exercises and worked solutions.

This text provides academic researchers, graduate students in computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering, as well as practitioners in industry and research engineers with an understanding of the specific design challenges and solutions for wireless sensor networks. 

Check out www.wiley.com/go/wsn for accompanying course material!

"I am deeply impressed by the book of Karl & Willig. It is by far the most complete source for wireless sensor networks...The book covers almost all topics related to sensor networks, gives an amazing number of references, and, thus, is the perfect source for students, teachers, and researchers. Throughout the book the reader will find high quality text, figures, formulas, comparisons etc. - all you need for a sound basis to start sensor network research."

Prof. Jochen Schiller, Institute of Computer Science, Freie Universität Berlin


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470519233
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 10/08/2007
Pages: 528
Product dimensions: 6.73(w) x 9.74(h) x 1.15(d)

About the Author

Holger Karl is currently assistant professor in the Networking Group (Prof. Adam Wolisz) at the Technical University of Berlin.  His research interests focus on wireless and mobile networks, with a certain emphasis on ad-hoc networks. He has published numerous papers and research articles in international journals (e.g. IEEE, IEE, CPE).

Andreas Willig is currently assistant professor at the University of Potsdam. His areas of interest comprise communication networks (wireless LANs, real-time systems and ad-hoc and sensor networks) and performance evaluation.

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Table of Contents

Preface xiii

List of abbreviations xv

A guide to the book xxiii

1 Introduction 1

1.1 The vision of Ambient Intelligence 1

1.2 Application examples 3

1.3 Types of applications 6

1.4 Challenges for WSNs 7

1.4.1 Characteristic requirements 7

1.4.2 Required mechanisms 9

1.5 Why are sensor networks different? 10

1.5.1 Mobile ad hoc networks and wireless sensor networks 10

1.5.2 Fieldbuses and wireless sensor networks 12

1.6 Enabling technologies for wireless sensor networks 13

Part I Architectures 15

2 Single-node architecture 17

2.1 Hardware components 18

2.1.1 Sensor node hardware overview 18

2.1.2 Controller 19

2.1.3 Memory 21

2.1.4 Communication device 21

2.1.5 Sensors and actuators 31

2.1.6 Power supply of sensor nodes 32

2.2 Energy consumption of sensor nodes 36

2.2.1 Operation states with different power consumption 36

2.2.2 Microcontroller energy consumption 38

2.2.3 Memory 39

2.2.4 Radio transceivers 40

2.2.5 Relationship between computation and communication 44

2.2.6 Power consumption of sensor and actuators 44

2.3 Operating systems and execution environments 45

2.3.1 Embedded operating systems 45

2.3.2 Programming paradigms and application programming interfaces 45

2.3.3 Structure of operating system and protocol stack 47

2.3.4 Dynamic energy and power management 48

2.3.5 Case Study: TinyOS and nesC 50

2.3.6 Other examples 53

2.4 Some examples of sensor nodes 54

2.4.1 The “Mica Mote” family 54

2.4.2 EYES nodes 54

2.4.3 BTnodes 54

2.4.4 Scatterweb 54

2.4.5 Commercial solutions 55

2.5 Conclusion 56

3 Network architecture 59

3.1 Sensor network scenarios 60

3.1.1 Types of sources and sinks 60

3.1.2 Single-hop versus multihop networks 60

3.1.3 Multiple sinks and sources 62

3.1.4 Three types of mobility 62

3.2 Optimization goals and figures of merit 63

3.2.1 Quality of service 64

3.2.2 Energy efficiency 65

3.2.3 Scalability 66

3.2.4 Robustness 67

3.3 Design principles for WSNs 67

3.3.1 Distributed organization 67

3.3.2 In-network processing 67

3.3.3 Adaptive fidelity and accuracy 70

3.3.4 Data centricity 70

3.3.5 Exploit location information 73

3.3.6 Exploit activity patterns 73

3.3.7 Exploit heterogeneity 73

3.3.8 Component-based protocol stacks and cross-layer optimization 74

3.4 Service interfaces of WSNs 74

3.4.1 Structuring application/protocol stack interfaces 74

3.4.2 Expressibility requirements for WSN service interfaces 76

3.4.3 Discussion 77

3.5 Gateway concepts 78

3.5.1 The need for gateways 78

3.5.2 WSN to Internet communication 79

3.5.3 Internet to WSN communication 80

3.5.4 WSN tunneling 81

3.6 Conclusion 81

Part II Communication Protocols 83

4 Physical layer 85

4.1 Introduction 85

4.2 Wireless channel and communication fundamentals 86

4.2.1 Frequency allocation 86

4.2.2 Modulation and demodulation 88

4.2.3 Wave propagation effects and noise 90

4.2.4 Channel models 96

4.2.5 Spread-spectrum communications 98

4.2.6 Packet transmission and synchronization 100

4.2.7 Quality of wireless channels and measures for improvement 102

4.3 Physical layer and transceiver design considerations in WSNs 103

4.3.1 Energy usage profile 103

4.3.2 Choice of modulation scheme 104

4.3.3 Dynamic modulation scaling 108

4.3.4 Antenna considerations 108

4.4 Further reading 109

5 MAC protocols 111

5.1 Fundamentals of (wireless) MAC protocols 112

5.1.1 Requirements and design constraints for wireless MAC protocols 112

5.1.2 Important classes of MAC protocols 114

5.1.3 MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks 119

5.2 Low duty cycle protocols and wakeup concepts 120

5.2.1 Sparse topology and energy management (STEM) 121

5.2.2 S-mac 123

5.2.3 The mediation device protocol 126

5.2.4 Wakeup radio concepts 127

5.2.5 Further reading 128

5.3 Contention-based protocols 129

5.3.1 CSMA protocols 129

5.3.2 PAMAS 131

5.3.3 Further solutions 132

5.4 Schedule-based protocols 133

5.4.1 LEACH 133

5.4.2 SMACS 135

5.4.3 Traffic-adaptive medium access protocol (TRAMA) 137

5.4.4 Further solutions 139

5.5 The IEEE 802.15.4 MAC protocol 139

5.5.1 Network architecture and types/roles of nodes 140

5.5.2 Superframe structure 141

5.5.3 GTS management 141

5.5.4 Data transfer procedures 142

5.5.5 Slotted CSMA-CA protocol 142

5.5.6 Nonbeaconed mode 144

5.5.7 Further reading 145

5.6 How about IEEE 802.11 and bluetooth? 145

5.7 Further reading 146

5.8 Conclusion 148

6 Link-layer protocols 149

6.1 Fundamentals: tasks and requirements 150

6.2 Error control 151

6.2.1 Causes and characteristics of transmission errors 151

6.2.2 ARQ techniques 152

6.2.3 FEC techniques 158

6.2.4 Hybrid schemes 163

6.2.5 Power control 165

6.2.6 Further mechanisms to combat errors 166

6.2.7 Error control: summary 167

6.3 Framing 167

6.3.1 Adaptive schemes 170

6.3.2 Intermediate checksum schemes 172

6.3.3 Combining packet-size optimization and FEC 173

6.3.4 Treatment of frame headers 174

6.3.5 Framing: summary 174

6.4 Link management 174

6.4.1 Link-quality characteristics 175

6.4.2 Link-quality estimation 177

6.5 Summary 179

7 Naming and addressing 181

7.1 Fundamentals 182

7.1.1 Use of addresses and names in (sensor) networks 182

7.1.2 Address management tasks 183

7.1.3 Uniqueness of addresses 184

7.1.4 Address allocation and assignment 184

7.1.5 Addressing overhead 185

7.2 Address and name management in wireless sensor networks 186

7.3 Assignment of MAC addresses 186

7.3.1 Distributed assignment of networkwide addresses 187

7.4 Distributed assignment of locally unique addresses 189

7.4.1 Address assignment algorithm 189

7.4.2 Address selection and representation 191

7.4.3 Further schemes 194

7.5 Content-based and geographic addressing 194

7.5.1 Content-based addressing 194

7.5.2 Geographic addressing 198

7.6 Summary 198

8 Time synchronization 201

8.1 Introduction to the time synchronization problem 201

8.1.1 The need for time synchronization in wireless sensor networks 202

8.1.2 Node clocks and the problem of accuracy 203

8.1.3 Properties and structure of time synchronization algorithms 204

8.1.4 Time synchronization in wireless sensor networks 206

8.2 Protocols based on sender/receiver synchronization 207

8.2.1 Lightweight time synchronization protocol (LTS) 207

8.2.2 How to increase accuracy and estimate drift 212

8.2.3 Timing-sync protocol for sensor networks (TPSN) 214

8.3 Protocols based on receiver/receiver synchronization 217

8.3.1 Reference broadcast synchronization (RBS) 217

8.3.2 Hierarchy referencing time synchronization (HRTS) 223

8.4 Further reading 226

9 Localization and positioning 231

9.1 Properties of localization and positioning procedures 232

9.2 Possible approaches 233

9.2.1 Proximity 233

9.2.2 Trilateration and triangulation 234

9.2.3 Scene analysis 237

9.3 Mathematical basics for the lateration problem 237

9.3.1 Solution with three anchors and correct distance values 238

9.3.2 Solving with distance errors 238

9.4 Single-hop localization 240

9.4.1 Active Badge 240

9.4.2 Active office 240

9.4.3 Radar 240

9.4.4 Cricket 241

9.4.5 Overlapping connectivity 241

9.4.6 Approximate point in triangle 242

9.4.7 Using angle of arrival information 243

9.5 Positioning in multihop environments 243

9.5.1 Connectivity in a multihop network 244

9.5.2 Multihop range estimation 244

9.5.3 Iterative and collaborative multilateration 245

9.5.4 Probabilistic positioning description and propagation 247

9.6 Impact of anchor placement 247

9.7 Further reading 248

9.8 Conclusion 249

10 Topology control 251

10.1 Motivation and basic ideas 251

10.1.1 Options for topology control 252

10.1.2 Aspects of topology-control algorithms 254

10.2 Controlling topology in flat networks – Power control 256

10.2.1 Some complexity results 256

10.2.2 Are there magic numbers? – bounds on critical parameters 257

10.2.3 Some example constructions and protocols 259

10.2.4 Further reading on flat topology control 265

10.3 Hierarchical networks by dominating sets 266

10.3.1 Motivation and definition 266

10.3.2 A hardness result 266

10.3.3 Some ideas from centralized algorithms 267

10.3.4 Some distributed approximations 270

10.3.5 Further reading 273

10.4 Hierarchical networks by clustering 274

10.4.1 Definition of clusters 274

10.4.2 A basic idea to construct independent sets 277

10.4.3 A generalization and some performance insights 278

10.4.4 Connecting clusters 278

10.4.5 Rotating clusterheads 279

10.4.6 Some more algorithm examples 280

10.4.7 Multihop clusters 281

10.4.8 Multiple layers of clustering 283

10.4.9 Passive clustering 284

10.4.10 Further reading 284

10.5 Combining hierarchical topologies and power control 285

10.5.1 Pilot-based power control 285

10.5.2 Ad hoc Network Design Algorithm (ANDA) 285

10.5.3 Clusterpow 286

10.6 Adaptive node activity 286

10.6.1 Geographic Adaptive Fidelity (GAF) 286

10.6.2 Adaptive Self-Configuring sEnsor Networks’ Topologies (ASCENT) 287

10.6.3 Turning off nodes on the basis of sensing coverage 288

10.7 Conclusions 288

11 Routing protocols 289

11.1 The many faces of forwarding and routing 289

11.2 Gossiping and agent-based unicast forwarding 292

11.2.1 Basic idea 292

11.2.2 Randomized forwarding 292

11.2.3 Random walks 293

11.2.4 Further reading 294

11.3 Energy-efficient unicast 295

11.3.1 Overview 295

11.3.2 Some example unicast protocols 297

11.3.3 Further reading 301

11.3.4 Multipath unicast routing 301

11.3.5 Further reading 304

11.4 Broadcast and multicast 305

11.4.1 Overview 305

11.4.2 Source-based tree protocols 308

11.4.3 Shared, core-based tree protocols 314

11.4.4 Mesh-based protocols 314

11.4.5 Further reading on broadcast and multicast 315

11.5 Geographic routing 316

11.5.1 Basics of position-based routing 316

11.5.2 Geocasting 323

11.5.3 Further reading on geographic routing 326

11.6 Mobile nodes 328

11.6.1 Mobile sinks 328

11.6.2 Mobile data collectors 328

11.6.3 Mobile regions 329

11.7 Conclusions 329

12 Data-centric and content-based networking 331

12.1 Introduction 331

12.1.1 The publish/subscribe interaction paradigm 331

12.1.2 Addressing data 332

12.1.3 Implementation options 333

12.1.4 Distribution versus gathering of data – In-network processing 334

12.2 Data-centric routing 335

12.2.1 One-shot interactions 335

12.2.2 Repeated interactions 337

12.2.3 Further reading 340

12.3 Data aggregation 341

12.3.1 Overview 341

12.3.2 A database interface to describe aggregation operations 342

12.3.3 Categories of aggregation operations 343

12.3.4 Placement of aggregation points 345

12.3.5 When to stop waiting for more data 345

12.3.6 Aggregation as an optimization problem 347

12.3.7 Broadcasting an aggregated value 347

12.3.8 Information-directed routing and aggregation 350

12.3.9 Some further examples 352

12.3.10 Further reading on data aggregation 355

12.4 Data-centric storage 355

12.5 Conclusions 357

13 Transport layer and quality of service 359

13.1 The transport layer and QoS in wireless sensor networks 359

13.1.1 Quality of service/reliability 360

13.1.2 Transport protocols 361

13.2 Coverage and deployment 362

13.2.1 Sensing models 362

13.2.2 Coverage measures 364

13.2.3 Uniform random deployments: Poisson point processes 365

13.2.4 Coverage of random deployments: Boolean sensing model 366

13.2.5 Coverage of random deployments: general sensing model 368

13.2.6 Coverage determination 369

13.2.7 Coverage of grid deployments 374

13.2.8 Further reading 375

13.3 Reliable data transport 376

13.3.1 Reliability requirements in sensor networks 377

13.4 Single packet delivery 378

13.4.1 Using a single path 379

13.4.2 Using multiple paths 384

13.4.3 Multiple receivers 388

13.4.4 Summary 389

13.5 Block delivery 389

13.5.1 PSFQ: block delivery in the sink-to-sensors case 389

13.5.2 RMST: block delivery in the sensors-to-sink case 395

13.5.3 What about TCP? 397

13.5.4 Further reading 399

13.6 Congestion control and rate control 400

13.6.1 Congestion situations in sensor networks 400

13.6.2 Mechanisms for congestion detection and handling 402

13.6.3 Protocols with rate control 403

13.6.4 The CODA congestion-control framework 408

13.6.5 Further reading 411

14 Advanced application support 413

14.1 Advanced in-network processing 413

14.1.1 Going beyond mere aggregation of data 413

14.1.2 Distributed signal processing 414

14.1.3 Distributed source coding 416

14.1.4 Network coding 420

14.1.5 Further issues 421

14.2 Security 422

14.2.1 Fundamentals 422

14.2.2 Security considerations in wireless sensor networks 423

14.2.3 Denial-of-service attacks 423

14.2.4 Further reading 425

14.3 Application-specific support 425

14.3.1 Target detection and tracking 426

14.3.2 Contour/edge detection 429

14.3.3 Field sampling 432

Bibliography 437

Index 481

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