TY - GEN
T1 - Flying Sinks
T2 - 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
AU - Nickerson, Jeffrey V.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Movement in wireless and sensor environments changes the degree to which we can communicate. Whereas sensor networks are generally seen as static, in many situations there is at least one component which moves, the data sink, which flies over a sensor field to integrate information. Also, it is possible to imagine sensors which, after they are deployed, move once into position. There are quality of service tradeoffs related to movement, for movement takes energy and time, but can increase integration, which we can measure in two ways. The utility of the sensor field is related to the number and size of its connected components. The pragmatic utility measures the communication back to human interpreters, and is a function of the periodicity of the transmission activity.
AB - Movement in wireless and sensor environments changes the degree to which we can communicate. Whereas sensor networks are generally seen as static, in many situations there is at least one component which moves, the data sink, which flies over a sensor field to integrate information. Also, it is possible to imagine sensors which, after they are deployed, move once into position. There are quality of service tradeoffs related to movement, for movement takes energy and time, but can increase integration, which we can measure in two ways. The utility of the sensor field is related to the number and size of its connected components. The pragmatic utility measures the communication back to human interpreters, and is a function of the periodicity of the transmission activity.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2006.185
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2006.185
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33749619504
SN - 0769525075
SN - 9780769525075
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 237b
BT - Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS'06
Y2 - 4 January 2006 through 7 January 2006
ER -