Field-Gathering Sensor Networks, Distributed Encoding and Oversampling

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Field-Gathering Wireless Sensor Network D.
Neuhoff, M. Liu, S. Pradhan University of Michigan
temperature field sensing
Goal To develop the theory and practice of
wireless sensor networks for measuring a
two-dimensional field and transporting it to a
collector site, where for display or input to a
recognition or tracking system
Performance measures
Applications weather, smart buildings, disaster
management, anti-bio-terror
Energy efficiency, accuracy, scalability,
self-configuring
Sampling, quantization, binary encoding
Modulation, medium access control (MAC), routing
Data representation
Data dissemination
physical layer model, sensor-assisted relaying,
time-critical field gathering
Sub-systems
Decentralized MAC, joint sequential coding and
routing, architectural issues
Practice, design, architecture
Example sensor assisted relaying
Proposed research