A Novel Self Organizing Framework for SANETs
Muhammad Farukh Munir, Fethi Filali · 2006
Abstract- Sensor application requirements vary tremen-dously, ranging from densely deployed habitat-monitoring setup to the real-time constrained military applications. This paper presents the design of a novel self-organizing frame-work for SANETs (Sensor and Actuator Networks). We as-sume two wireless interfaces at the actuator nodes, one to communicate with sensor nodes, and the other, for the neigh-boring actuator nodes for fast and effective actuation pro-cess. We design a new protocol called ADP (Actuator Dis-covery protocol) which provides an optimal attachment for a sensor node to the nearest actuator. For the sensor-actuator coordination, the proposed ADP can guarantee ordering, synchronization and eliminates the redundancy of actions. It also renders the sensor and actuator nodes with the ability to self-organize and to exploit the spatial and temporal cor-relations in an efcient way. A new node-addressing scheme is proposed to make the routing more powerful especially in case of node failure and mobility.