Scalable, Robust and Real Time Communication Architecture For Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

In this paper we propose wireless sensor network architecture with layered protocols, targeting different aspects of the awareness requirements in wireless sensor networks. Under such a unified framework, we pay special attention to the most important awareness issues in wireless sensor networks: namely dynamic awareness, energy awareness and spatiotemporal awareness. First, we propose the spatiotemporal aware routing protocol for wireless sensor networks, which maintains a constant delivery speed for soft real-time communication. Second, we introduce the time-energy aware aggregation scheme, which increases the degree of aggregation and reduces energy consumption without jeopardizing the end-to-end delay. It is the data aggregation scheme to take the timely delivery of messages as well as protocol overhead into account to adjust aggregation strategies adaptively in accordance with assessed traffic conditions and expected wireless sensor network requirements. Third, we also deal with dynamic awareness by proposing a new communication category based on a lazy-binding concept. The evaluation of this integrated architecture demonstrates its performance composability and its capability to be tailored for applications with different awareness requirements. We believe that the integrated architecture, supporting various kinds of awareness requirements, lays a foundation for overall wireless sensor network.