“Poster Abstract: The Purpose and Benefit of Segmenting a Multi-Transmitter Network” by Douglas Carlson and Omprakash Gnawali. In Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Wireless sensor networks (EWSN 2014), Feb. 2014.
In a multi-transmiter network, multiple wireless nodes transmit data at the same time. If these transmissions are timed close enough to each other, they interfere non-destructively and can be correctly decoded. Systems such as CX, Glossy, and LWB use this principle to achieve efficient and reliable network-wide synchronization or communication. In practice, many wireless sensor network deployments are patchy, i.e., a few widely-spread areas are densely instrumented. While prior work in multi-transmitter networks relied on a single, globally coordinated network, intuition tells us that subdividing the network will make it easier and more energy-efficient to coordinate schedules. In this work, we show how multi-transmitter networking can be applied to segmented networks and evaluate its effect on energy consumption and packet delivery rates.
BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{patches-ewsn2014,
author = {Douglas Carlson and Omprakash Gnawali},
title = {{Poster Abstract: The Purpose and Benefit of Segmenting a
Multi-Transmitter Network}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th European conference on Wireless
sensor networks (EWSN 2014)},
month = feb,
year = {2014}
}