Modeling and Performance Analysis of Wireless Sensor Network Systems Using Petri Nets
Song Chen, Qi‐Wei Ge, Qian-Ming Shao, Qian Hua Zhu · ITC-CSCC :International Technical Conference on Circuits Systems, Computers and Communications · 2008
Wireless sensor network (WSN), composed by sensors, microprocessor and wireless communication interface, is an interesting field, and gains more and more attentions. The importance of sensor networks is highlighted by the number of recent funding initiatives, including the DARPA SENSIT program, military programs, and NSF Program Announcements. The wide application prospects make it developing rapidly in some fields such as health care, environment monitoring and military field. Petri nets are chosen for their ability to describe and study discrete event systems that characterized as being event systems that are characterized as being concurrent, asynchronous, parallel, nondeterministic, and stochastic. We construct ordinary and temporal Petri net models for wireless sensor network systems and use the model to solve the problem of location of nodes of wireless sensor network.