Network Design White Papers
Decentralized Utility-Based Sensor Network Design
Overview Wireless sensor networks consist of energy constrained nodes operating typically in an unattended mode and highly dynamic environments. This paper advocates a systematic decentralized approach to designing these networks based on utility functions. The paper investigates the design of appropriate local utility functions for each sensor such that while each sensor "Selfishly" optimizes its own utility, the network as a "Whole" converges to a desired global objective. Specifically, the paper designs a mechanism for the problem of constructing a load balanced data gathering tree in a sensor network using this approach. The paper shows that the tree obtained using this mechanism is optimally load balanced by comparison with a centralized offline algorithm.
| Publisher | University of Southern California | File Format | |
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| Date Published | February 2004 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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