Article in Proceedings INPROC-2007-46

BibliographyGauger, Matthias; Marrón, Pedro José; Kauker, Daniel; Rothermel, Kurt: Low Overhead Assignment of Symbolic Coordinates in Sensor Networks.
In: Orozco-Barbosa, Luis (ed.); Olivares, Teresa (ed.); Casado, Rafael (ed.); Bermúdez, Aurelio (ed.): Proceedings of the IFIP First International Conference on Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks, WSAN'07.
University of Stuttgart, Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Information Technology.
pp. 181-192, english.
Springer, September 2007.
ISBN: 978-0-387-74898-6.
Article in Proceedings (Conference Paper).
CorporationIFIP International Federation for Information Processing Series; 248
CR-SchemaC.3 (Special-Purpose and Application-Based Systems)
Abstract

Approximate information on the location of nodes in a sensor network is essential to many types of sensor network applications and algorithms. In many cases, using symbolic coordinates is an attractive alternative to the use of geographic coordinates due to lower costs and lower requirements on the available location information during coordinate assignment. In this paper, we investigate different possible methods of assigning symbolic coordinates to sensor nodes. We present a method based on broadcasting coordinate messaging and filtering using sensor events. We show in the evaluation that this method allows a reliable assignment of symbolic coordinates while only generating a low overhead.

Contactgauger@cs.uni-bonn.de
Department(s)University of Stuttgart, Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems, Distributed Systems
Entry dateOctober 17, 2007
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