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Fountain Codes Based Distributed Storage Algorithms for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks
April 22-April 24
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/IPSN.2008.642008 International Conference on Info ...
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We consider large-scale networks with n nodes, out of which k are in possession, (e.g., have sensed or collected in some other way) k information packets. In the scenarios in which network nodes are vulnerable because of, for example, limited energy or a hostile environment, it is desirable to disseminate the acquired information throughout the network so that each of the n nodes stores one (possibly coded) packet and the original k source packets can be recovered later in a computationally simple way from any (1 + \varepsilon)k nodes for some small \varepsilon > 0. We developed two distributed algorithms for solving this problem based on simple random walks and Fountain codes. Unlike all previously developed schemes, our solution is truly distributed, that is, nodes do not know n, k or connectivity in the network, except in their own neighborhoods, and they do not maintain any routing tables. In the first algorithm, all the sensors have the knowledge of n and k. In the second algorithm, each sensor estimates these parameters through the random walk dissemination. We present analysis of the communication/transmission and encoding/decoding complexity of these two algorithms, and provide extensive simulation results as well.
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Salah A. Aly, Zhenning Kong, Emina Soljanin, "Fountain Codes Based Distributed Storage Algorithms for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks," ipsn, pp.171-182, 2008 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (ipsn 2008), 2008
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