Abstract—Battery powered wireless sensor networks (WSN) have as main constraint the energy available. The hardware project have to take as objective the power consumption minimization during idle-sleeping sensor states. The software power control and the communication stack implementations have a heavy impact on device power requirement so a carefully design is able to assure longer network lifetime. In this paper we address the implementation aspects of a WSN geographical routing algorithm [1] in order to investigate the real performances obtainable on a commercially available platform. Some changes to original design are proposed so as to overcame the problems introduced by sensor devices hardware and operating system limits. A detailed description of protocol realization is reported and energy measures are made on the devices to characterize the power requirement of the algorithm.
Geographical Routing Algorithm Implementation on Wireless Sensor Networks
RUGIN, Raffaele;MAZZINI, Gianluca
2006
Abstract
Abstract—Battery powered wireless sensor networks (WSN) have as main constraint the energy available. The hardware project have to take as objective the power consumption minimization during idle-sleeping sensor states. The software power control and the communication stack implementations have a heavy impact on device power requirement so a carefully design is able to assure longer network lifetime. In this paper we address the implementation aspects of a WSN geographical routing algorithm [1] in order to investigate the real performances obtainable on a commercially available platform. Some changes to original design are proposed so as to overcame the problems introduced by sensor devices hardware and operating system limits. A detailed description of protocol realization is reported and energy measures are made on the devices to characterize the power requirement of the algorithm.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.