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Information Dissemination in WSNs Applied to Physical Phenomena Tracking

Authors:
María Ángeles Serna
Eva María García
Aurelio Bermúdez
Rafael Casado

Keywords: sensor networks; dissemination; performance evaluation

Abstract:
Several works suggest the use of wireless sensor networks to manage crisis situations. An example of such scenarios is forest fire fighting. In these situations, it is necessary to use efficient mechanisms for disseminating the environmental information captured by sensors. This paper analyzes the behavior of some representative broadcasting techniques when they are used to disseminate to the entire network the occurrence of multiple simultaneous events. The performance evaluation carried out shows that a moderate resource consumption in network devices can reduce the operation overhead.

Pages: 458 to 463

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2010

Publication date: October 25, 2010

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-100-7

Location: Florence, Italy

Dates: from October 25, 2010 to October 30, 2010