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Energy-Efficient Bootstrapping for Wireless Sensor Networks

Overview Wireless sensor networks are poised for increasingly wider uses in many military and civil applications. Such applications have stimulated research in a number of research areas related to energy conservation in such networks. Most such research focuses on energy saving in tasks after the network has been organized. Very little attention has been paid to network bootstrapping as a possible phase where energy can be saved. Bootstrapping is the phase in which the entities in a network are made aware of the presence of all or some of the other entities in the network. This paper describes a bootstrapping protocol for a class of sensor networks consisting of a mix of low-energy sensor nodes and a small number of high-energy entities called gateways.

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Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2005
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, TCP - IP, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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