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LRD2: Low Resource Device Description for Energy Efficient Device Discovery

Authors:
Juan Pablo Suarez Coloma
Levent Gurgen

Keywords: WSN; Device description; plug&play; low power; energy conservation; compression algorithm

Abstract:
The success of the large scale deployment of sensor actuator devices lies in their plug&play capabilities: they should be automatically discovered and ready to be used when they join to an environment. Self-description and discovery gain therefore a particular importance. Nevertheless, there is currently no largely adopted energy efficient device description and discovery standard. Existing protocols use proprietary device description models and discovery mechanisms that are incompatible between the two. This paper presents LRD2 (Low Resource Device Description), a generic description model capable of describing different kinds of device information. LRD2 implements a compression algorithm to reduce the size of description documents, thus saving energy by reducing the number of messages sent in the network. Experimental results about the performance of LRD2 are also presented.

Pages: 229 to 232

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: August 21, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4405

ISBN: 978-1-61208-144-1

Location: Nice/Saint Laurent du Var, France

Dates: from August 21, 2011 to August 27, 2011