Using Existing Infrastructure as Proxy Support for Sensor Networks
Jonas Neander, Mikael Nolin, Mats Björkman · 2004
In many environments where communications infrastructure already exists, e.g. factories and hospitals, sensor networks applications are becoming increasingly interesting. We present our ongoing work aimed at developing a network architecture using such existing infrastructure as proxy support for sensor networks. The proposed topology is asymmetric in its communication, i.e. the proxy can reach its sensor nodes in one hop but there is no guarantee that the sensor nodes reach the proxy directly. Thus we propose to divide the topology hierarchically.