Ultra-Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks in Practice Theory, Realization and Deployment

by Kuorilehto, Mauri; Kohvakka, Mikko; Suhonen, Jukka; Hä; mä; lä; inen, Panu; Hä; nnikä; inen, Marko; Hamalainen, Timo D.

• ISBN13: 9780470057865
• ISBN10: 0470057866
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-29
• Publisher: WILEY

Summary

Finally a book on Wireless Sensor Networks that covers real world applications and contains practical advice!Kuorilehto et al. have written the first practical guide to wireless sensor networks. The authors draw on their experience in the development and field-testing of autonomous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) to offer a comprehensive reference on fundamentals, practical matters, limitations and solutions of this fast moving research area.Ultra Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks in Practice:Explains the essential problems and issues in real wireless sensor networks, and analyzes the most promising solutions.Provides a comprehensive guide to applications, functionality, protocols, and algorithms for WSNs.Offers practical experiences from new applications and their field-testing, including several deployed networks.Includes simulations and physical measurements for energy consumption, bit rate, latency, memory, and lifetime.Covers embedded resource-limited operating systems, middleware and application software.Ultra Low Energy Wireless Sensor Networks in Practice will prove essential reading for Research Scientists, advanced students in Networking, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as well as Product Managers and Design Engineers.

Author Biography

Timo D. Hämäläinen is Professor and Institute Vice President at Tampere University of Technology, Finland. Timo acted as a senior research scientist and project manager at TUT from 1997-2001. In 2001 he was nominated full professor at TUT/Institute of Digital and Computer Systems. He heads the DACI research group that focuses on three main lines: wireless local area networking and wireless sensor networks, high-performance DSP/HW based video encoding, and interconnection networks with design flow tools for heterogeneous SoC platforms. He has published over 30 refereed international journals and over 150 conference publications.

Marko Hännikäinen is Senior Research Scientist and Mauri Kuorilehto, Mikko Kohvakka, Jukka Suhonen, Panu Hämäläinen are all Research Scientists at Tampere University of Technology, Finland.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Introduction

Tutwsn

Contents of the Book

Design Space Of Wsns

WSN Properties

Characteristics of WSNs

WSN Applications

Requirements for WSNs

Standards and Proposals

Standards

Variations of Standards

Sensor Node Platforms

Platform Components

Existing Platforms

TUTWSN Platforms

Antenna Design

Design of WSNs

Design Dimensions

WSN Design Flow

Related Research on WSN Design

WSN Evaluation Methods

WSN Evaluation Tools

WSN Protocol Stack

Protocol Stack Overview

Outline of WSN Stack

MAC Protocols

Requirements

General Medium Access Control (MAC) Approaches

WSN MAC Protocols

Routing Protocols

Requirements

Classifications

Operation Principles

Summary

Middleware and Application Layer

Motivation and Requirements

WSN Middleware Approaches

WSN Middleware Proposals

Operating Systems

Motivation and Requirements

Existing OSs

QoS Issues in WSN

Traditional QoS

Unique Requirements in WSNs

Parameters Defining WSN QoS

QoS Support in Protocol Layers

Summary

Security in WSNs

WSN Security Threats and Countermeasures

Security Architectures for WSNs

Key Distribution in WSNs

Summary of WSN Security Considerations

Tutwsn

TUTWSN MAC Protocol

Network Topology

Channel Access

Frequency Division

Advanced Mobility Support

Advanced Support for Bursty Traffic

TUTWSN MAC Optimization

Reducing radio requirements

Network beacon rate optimization

TUTWSN MAC Implementation

Measured Performance of TUTWSN MAC

TUTWSN Routing Protocol

Design and Implementation

Related Work

Cost-Aware Routing

Implementation

Measurement Results

Tutwsn Api

Design of TUTWSN API

TUTWSN API Implementation

TUTWSN API Evaluation

TUTWSN SensorOS

SensorOS Design

SensorOS Implementation

SensorOS Performance Evaluation

Lightweight Kernel Configuration

SensorOS Bootloader Service

Cross-Layer Issues in TUTWSN 213

Cross-layer Node Configuration

Piggybacking Data

Self-configuration with Cross-layer Information

Protocol Analysis Models

PHY Power Analysis

Radio Energy Models

Contention Models

Node Operation Models

Summary

WISENES Design and Evaluation Environment

Features

WSN Design with WISENES

WISENES Framework

Existing WISENES Designs

WISENES Simulation Results

Deployment

TUTWSN Deployments

TUTWSN Deployment Architecture

Network Self-diagnostics

Security Experiments

Sensing Applications

Linear Position Metering

Indoor Temperature Sensing

Environmental Monitoring

Transfer Applications

TCP IP for TUTWSN

Real-time High-performance WSN

Tracking Applications

Surveillance System

Indoor Positioning

Team Game Management

Conclusions

Conclusions

Bibliography

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