Load balanced, energy-aware communications for Mars sensor networks Export

@inproceedings{hong:balanced, abstract = {The deployment and operation of self-organizing sensor networks is envisioned to play a key role in space exploration, such as for future in situ exploration of Mars. Sensors are equipped with several measurement instruments and are able to cooperate autonomously and to collect scientific measurements (seismic, chemicals, temperature, etc.). One or more landers or rovers functioning as base stations periodically (or on demand) collect measurements and relay the aggregated sensor field results to an orbiter and from the orbiter back to Earth. In this paper, we propose an efficient routing scheme for Mars sensor networks exploiting the similarity of operations between the wireless, multi-hop communications network connecting instruments (sensors) and rover(s) and the packet radio network used in a typical ad hoc networking environment. A critical issue in routing strategy design that sets the Mars sensor network apart from conventional ad hoc networks is energy conservation and prolonging network lifetime while maintaining connectivity and satisfying latency constraints. Simulation results show that with energy aware path selection, a more even distribution of energy consumption among nodes is developed and leads to longer network life time.}, author = {Hong, Xiaoyuan and Gerla, Mario and Wang, Hanbiao and Clare, Loren}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Aerospace Conference}, citeulike-article-id = {1902880}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2002.1035240}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1035240}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://lecs.cs.ucla.edu/~hbwang/publications/hxy-bigsky.pdf}, doi = {10.1109/AERO.2002.1035240}, isbn = {0-7803-7231-X}, keywords = {energy, load-balancing, routing, sensor-networks}, location = {Big Sky, MT, USA}, month = {March}, pages = {1109--1115}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 14:52:55}, priority = {2}, publisher = {IEEE}, title = {Load balanced, energy-aware communications for {Mars} sensor networks}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2002.1035240}, volume = {3}, year = {2002} }

TY - CONF ID - hong:balanced L3 - citeulike-article-id:1902880 N2 - The deployment and operation of self-organizing sensor networks is envisioned to play a key role in space exploration, such as for future in situ exploration of Mars. Sensors are equipped with several measurement instruments and are able to cooperate autonomously and to collect scientific measurements (seismic, chemicals, temperature, etc.). One or more landers or rovers functioning as base stations periodically (or on demand) collect measurements and relay the aggregated sensor field results to an orbiter and from the orbiter back to Earth. In this paper, we propose an efficient routing scheme for Mars sensor networks exploiting the similarity of operations between the wireless, multi-hop communications network connecting instruments (sensors) and rover(s) and the packet radio network used in a typical ad hoc networking environment. A critical issue in routing strategy design that sets the Mars sensor network apart from conventional ad hoc networks is energy conservation and prolonging network lifetime while maintaining connectivity and satisfying latency constraints. Simulation results show that with energy aware path selection, a more even distribution of energy consumption among nodes is developed and leads to longer network life time. CY - Big Sky, MT, USA SN - 0-7803-7231-X EP - 1115 TI - Load balanced, energy-aware communications for {Mars} sensor networks PB - IEEE VL - 3 T2 - Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Aerospace Conference SP - 1109 KW - energy KW - load-balancing KW - routing KW - sensor-networks AU - Hong, Xiaoyuan AU - Gerla, Mario AU - Wang, Hanbiao AU - Clare, Loren PY - 2002/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2002.1035240 ER -