Polygonal Broadcast for Sensor Networks
Shlomi Dolev, Ted Herman, Limor Lahiani · 2003
This work considers communication among sensors that are spread in a geographic region. Each sensor is a computing device with severe resources limitations, low power, slow processing and small memory. The devices are distributed (uniformly) in the geographic region. In this work we present self-stabilizing broadcast, flooding and sense of direction procedures that fit the special characteristics of the system. Imaginary polygons tilings are presented as a general scheme for supporting communication in sensor networks. The broadcast procedures are used by a sensor for distributing secrets that activate the sensors simultaneously at a particular time without revealing the nature of the upcoming activity.