SPEED: A Stateless Protocol for Real-Time Communication in Sensor Networks

In this paper, we present a real-time communication protocol for sensor networks, called SPEED. The protocol provides three types of real-time communication services, namely, real-time unicast, real-time area-multicast and real-time area-anycast. SPEED is specifically tailored to be a stateless, localized algorithm with minimal control overhead. End-to-end soft real-time communication is achieved by maintaining a desired delivery speed across the sensor network through a novel combination of feedback control and non-deterministic geographic forwarding. SPEED is a highly efficient and scalable protocol for sensor networks where the resources of each node are scarce. Theoretical analysis, simulation experiments and a real implementation on Berkeley motes are provided to validate our claims.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICDCS
• Authors: Tian He, John A. Stankovic, Chenyang Lu, Tarek F. Abdelzaher
• Keywords: Distributed And Parallel Computing, ICDCS 2003, Real-time Communication, Real-time Communication Protocol, Sensor Networks