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Session Control Protocol Exploiting Controlled Mobility in Multi-Robot Sensor Networks
Dublin, Ireland October 15-October 18
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/LCN.2007.12732nd IEEE Conference on Local Compute ...
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Ryohei Suzuki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Yoshito Tobe, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
Kaoru Sezaki, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sensor networks using mobile robots have recently been proposed to provide more flexible and efficient sensing. One of the key challenges under this paradigm is a management of transferring a huge amount of data. In this paper, we propose a model and protocol for session control exploiting controlled mobility in Multi-Robot Sensor Networks (MRSNs) to transfer the huge amount of data efficiently. Since a communication in MRSNs is mainly provided by a physical movement of the mobile node, the performance of the session heavily depends on this movement. However, if a node initiating the session can utilize sufficient amount of nodes, the performance of the session significantly depends on the wireless communication. In this paper, we propose a suitable method of session control which is determined the balance between movement and wireless communications based on local information such as the location, number, maximum-velocity and buffer-size of surrounding nodes. WISER/s also takes a system policy of either delay minimization or energy efficiency into consideration. In this paper, we describe a method of how to initiate, terminate and manage the session including dynamic selection of optimal nodes? formation. We evaluate the performance of WISER/s using mobile robots which are equipped with MICA2 mote and comparing with non-optimized method. The experimental results demonstrate that WISER/s achieves better performance than non-optimized method.
Index Terms:
sensor networks; controlled mobility; multi-robot sensor networks; session control protocol
Citation:
Ryohei Suzuki, Yoshito Tobe, Kaoru Sezaki, "Session Control Protocol Exploiting Controlled Mobility in Multi-Robot Sensor Networks," lcn, pp.395-402, 32nd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2007), 2007
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