Data Dissemination with Ring-Based Index for Wireless Sensor Networks

In current sensor networks, sensor nodes are capable of not only measuring real world phenomena, but also storing, processing and transferring these measurements. Many data dissemination techniques have been proposed for sensor networks. However, these techniques may not work well in a large scale sensor network where a huge amount of sensing data are generated, but only a small portion of them are queried. In this paper, we propose an index-based data dissemination scheme to address the problem. This scheme is based on the idea that sensing data are collected, processed and stored at the nodes close to the detecting nodes, and the location information of these storing nodes is pushed to some index nodes, which act as the rendezvous points for sinks and sources. We further extend the scheme with an adaptive ring-based index (ARI) technique, in which the index nodes for one event type form a ring surrounding the location which is determined by the event type, and the ring can be dynami...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ICNP
• Authors: Wensheng Zhang, Guohong Cao, Thomas F. La Porta
• Keywords: ICNP 2003, Index Nodes, Index-based Scheme, Network Protocols, Sensor Network