Wireless Sensor Networks

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a new family of
networks that collects information by the help of the
collaborative work of several sensor nodes. In this
book, a new WSN for military monitoring (MILMON) is
proposed. MILMON monitors its environment and reports
the sensed events as soon as possible to the sink.
WSNs are application specific and all design
considerations are different for each application.
Especially, military application requirements are
very special. Design considerations of MILMON are
energy consumption, delay and fault tolerance. Time
synchronization, data indicator slot and time
scheduling mechanisms are essential parts of the new
system. SyncHRT which is a new synchronization schema
is proposed to minimize energy consumption and to
maximize precision. Newly proposed data indicator
slot mechanism (DISM) helps to reduce energy
consumption. A new time slot distribution mechanism,
ft_DTSM is also proposed for the new military
monitoring system. Although there are WSN systems
that perform better than our system for only energy
consumption or for only delay, new proposed sensor
network realizes an optimization on energy, delay and
fault tolerance.

Autorentext

Ilker BEKMEZCI, MS and PhD: Bogazici University Computer
Engineering (1999 and 2008 respectively), teaching assistant at
Turkish Air Force Academy, Istanbul, TURKEY.

Klappentext

Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a new family of
networks that collects information by the help of the
collaborative work of several sensor nodes. In this
book, a new WSN for military monitoring (MILMON) is
proposed. MILMON monitors its environment and reports
the sensed events as soon as possible to the sink.
WSNs are application specific and all design
considerations are different for each application.
Especially, military application requirements are
very special. Design considerations of MILMON are
energy consumption, delay and fault tolerance. Time
synchronization, data indicator slot and time
scheduling mechanisms are essential parts of the new
system. SyncHRT which is a new synchronization schema
is proposed to minimize energy consumption and to
maximize precision. Newly proposed data indicator
slot mechanism (DISM) helps to reduce energy
consumption. A new time slot distribution mechanism,
ft_DTSM is also proposed for the new military
monitoring system. Although there are WSN systems
that perform better than our system for only energy
consumption or for only delay, new proposed sensor
network realizes an optimization on energy, delay and
fault tolerance.