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A Communication Architecture for Mobile Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks

Overview In Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks (WSANs), the collaborative operation of sensors enables the distributed sensing of a physical phenomenon, while actors collect and process sensor data and perform appropriate actions. In this paper, the coordination and communication problems in WSANs with mobile actors are studied. A hybrid location management scheme is introduced to handle the mobility of actors with minimal energy expenditure. Actors broadcast location updates limiting their scope based on Voronoi diagrams, whereas sensors predict the movement of actors based on Kalman filtering of previously received updates. An optimal energy-aware forwarding rule is then derived for sensor-actor communication, based on geographical routing.

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Publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	File Format	PDF
Date Published	July 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Monitoring Systems, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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