Abstract

Ramesh Govindan, Eddie Kohler, Deborah Estrin, Fang Bian, Krishna Chintalapudi, Om Gnawali, Sumit Rangwala, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Thanos Stathopoulos, Tenet: An Architecture for Tiered Embedded Networks, In CENS Technical Report 56, November 10 2005. [Technical Report] [PDF] [Abstract]

Future large-scale sensor network deployments will be tiered, with the motes providing dense sensing and a higher tier of 32-bit master nodes with more powerful radios providing increased overall network capacity. In this paper, we describe a functional architecture for wireless sensor networks that leverages this structure to simplify the overall system. Our Tenet architecture has the nice property that the mote-layer software is generic and reusable, and all application functionality resides in masters.