Summary: Reliable Bursty Convergecast in Wireless Sensor Networks
Hongwei Zhang

, Anish Arora

, Young-ri Choi
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, Mohamed G. Gouda
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Technical report: OSU-CISRC-7/04-TR42
Abstract
We address the challenges of bursty convergecast in
multi-hop wireless sensor networks, where a large burst
of packets from different locations needs to be trans-
ported reliably and in real-time to a base station. Via
experiments on a 49 MICA2 mote sensor network us-
ing a realistic traffic trace, we determine the primary
issues in bursty convergecast, and accordingly design
a protocol, RBC (for Reliable Bursty Convergecast),
to address these issues: To improve channel utiliza-

Source: Arora, Anish - Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences