Abstract

Jerry Zhao, R. Govindan, Understanding Packet Delivery Performance In Dense Wireless Sensor Networks, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), November 2003. [PDF] [Abstract]

Wireless sensor networks promise fine-grain monitoring in a wide variety of environments. Many of these environments (eg indoor environments or habitats) can be harsh for wireless communication. From a networking perspective, the most basic aspect of wireless communication is the packet delivery performance: the spatio-temporal characteristics of packet loss, and its environmental dependence. These factors will deeply impact the performance of data acquisition from these networks. In this paper, we report on a systematic medium-scale (up to sixty nodes) measurement of packet delivery in three different environments: an indoor office building, a habitat with moderate foliage, and an open parking lot. Our findings have interesting implications for the design and evaluation of routing and medium-access protocols for sensor networks.

@inproceedings{Zhao03b,
	author = {Jerry Zhao and R. Govindan},
	title = {{Understanding Packet Delivery Performance In Dense Wireless Sensor Networks}},
	booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys)",
	year = "2003",
	month = "November",
	address = "Los Angeles, CA",
}