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Specialized Network Formation: Long-Thin WSNs. National Chiao Tung University Department of Computer Science Yu-Chee Tseng 交通大學 / 資訊工程系 / 曾煜棋. Introduction. WSN deployment is a big concern in most practices. We propose a new long-thin (LT) topology for WSNs.
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Specialized Network Formation: Long-Thin WSNs National Chiao Tung University Department of Computer Science Yu-Chee Tseng 交通大學/資訊工程系/曾煜棋
Introduction • WSN deployment is a big concern in most practices. • We propose a new long-thin (LT) topologyfor WSNs. • a hierarachical address assignment • much better address pool utilization • Examples of LT WSNs: (bridges and roads)
Limitations of ZigBee • In ZigBee, the length of a network address is 16 bit • The maximum address capacity is 216=65536 • Given Cm and Rm, the depth Lm will be very restrictive • For example, given Cm=4 and Rm=2, the Lm can only no more than 14 not suitable for LT WSNs !!
Goals • (1) automatically form a LT network, (2) give addresses in a distributed manner, and (3) conduct routing • Assumption: • consider only router-capable devices (ignore end devices)
LT WSN: planning • Carefully plan node placement before deploying a WSN. • Divide nodes into multiple clusters. • Each cluster is as a line segment
LT network: Role Assignment • Nodes are divided into three types • Cluster head node: the first node in a line segment • Bridge node: the last node in a line segment • Normal node
LT WSN: Logical Network • After planning the network, the network manager can construct a logical network GL • From GL, we can determine two parameters • CCm: the maximum number of child of a node in GL • CLm: the depth of GL CCm=2 CLm=4 GL
LT WSN: Hierarchical Address Pool • Divided address into two parts: • Cluster ID • assigned to nodes of GL: similar the orignial ZigBee scheme • Node ID • assign to cluster members: according to their hop counts to the cluster head • Challenge: how to perform this automatically • a distributed node ranking scheme
Contributions • The first work that promotes the long-thin topology for WSN • Propose a network formation protocol for LT WSN • Propose a routing scheme suitable for LT WSN (omitted here) • Reference: • M.-S. Pan, H.-W. Fang, Y.-C. Liu, and Y.-C. Tseng, "Address Assignment and Routing Schemes for ZigBee-Based Long-Thin Wireless Sensor Networks", IEEE VTC, 2008-Spring.