Transcript Lecture 8

Lecture 8: Wireless Sensor Networks
Announcement
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Midterm EXAM : 5:00 – 6:15 pm March 28 (Thursday)
Midterm project report due 4/4 (Email submission)
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No class on 4/4 due to Chancellor's Inauguration
“we ask that all classes be cancelled beginning at 12:30
for the remainder of the day. Classes will resume on
Friday morning, April 5, 2013” – Provost
Project Presentation on April 9
Sensor Node Hardware
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Two main components
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Sensor Board
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Base (Processor + Transceiver)
Base + Sensor Board(s) = Sensor Node
Sensor Board
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Light
 Ultraviolet
 IR
 Visible Light
 Color sensors
Magnetic
Sound
 Ultrasound
Accelerometer
Temperature
Pressure
Humidity
Touch sensors
Sounder
Lig Temperature
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Accelerometer
1.25 in
Magnetometer
2.25 in
Microphone
Sensor Node Hardware
SENSING UNIT PROCESSING UNIT
Processor
Transceiver
Sensor ADC
Memory
Power Unit
ANTENNA
Properties of wireless sensor networks
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Sensor nodes (SN) monitor and control the environment
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Nodes process data and forward data via radio
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Integration into the environment, typically attached to other networks over a
gateway (GW)
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Network is self-organizing and energy efficient
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Potentially high number of nodes at very low cost per node
GW
SN
SN
Bluetooth, TETRA, …
SN
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SN
SN
GW
SN
SN
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GW
GW
SN
SN
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN)
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Commonalities with MANETs
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Self-organization, multi-hop
Typically wireless, should be energy efficient
Differences to MANETs
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Applications: MANET more powerful, more
general  WSN more specific
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Devices: MANET more powerful, higher data rates, more resources
 WSN rather limited, embedded, interacting with environment
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Scale: MANET rather small (some dozen devices)
 WSN can be large (thousands)
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Basic paradigms: MANET individual node important, ID centric
 WSN network important, individual node may be dispensable, data centric
Sensor Motes Timeline
Rene’
Mica
“Experimentation”
“Open
Experimental
Platform”
Telos
IMote
“Integrated
Platform”
WeC
Stargate 2.0
&
IMote2
“Smart Rock”
MicaZ
Mica2Dot
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
Dot
“Scale”
Spec
“Mote on
a chip”
Mica2
Stargate
SunSpot
Promising applications for WSNs
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Machine and vehicle monitoring
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Health & medicine
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Intrusion detection, mechanical stress detection
Environmental monitoring, person tracking
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Long-term monitoring of patients with minimal restrictions
Intensive care with relative great freedom of movement
Intelligent buildings, building monitoring
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Sensor nodes in moveable parts
Monitoring of hub temperatures, fluid levels …
Monitoring of wildlife and national parks
Cheap and (almost) invisible person monitoring
Monitoring waste dumps, demilitarized zones
… and many more: logistics (total asset management, RFID),
telematics …
CodeBlue: WSNs for Medical Care
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NSF, NIH, U.S. Army,
Sun Microsystems and
Microsoft
Corporation
Motivation - Vital sign
data poorly integrated
with pre-hospital and
hospital-based patient
care records
Reference:
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~mdw/proj/codeblue/
Wearable Patient Monitoring Application (ECG)
Through Wireless Networks
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Wearable Resilient Electrocardiogram (ECG)
networked sensor device used for patient monitoring
Wireless ECG medical sensor
Software GUI interface
Sensor Networks: Research Areas
Real-World Integration
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Gaming, Tourism
Emergency, Rescue
Monitoring, Surveillance
Self-configuring networks
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Robust routing
Low-power data aggregation
Simple indoor localization
Managing wireless sensor networks
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Tools for access and programming
Update distribution
Long-lived, autonomous networks
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Use environmental energy sources
Routing in WSNs is different
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No IP addressing, but simple, locally valid IDs
Example: directed diffusion
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Interest Messages
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Interest in sensor data: Attribute/Value pair
Gradient: remember direction of interested node
Data Messages
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Send back data using gradients
Hop count guarantees shortest path
Sink
TTDD: A Two-tier Data Dissemination
Model for Large-scale Wireless Sensor
Networks
A Sensor Network Example
Assumptions
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Fixed source and sensor nodes, mobile or
stationary sinks
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Nodes densely applied in large field
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Position-aware nodes, sinks not necessarily
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Once a stimulus appears, sensors surrounding
it collectively process signal, one becomes the
source to generate the data report
Sensor Network Model
Sink
Stimulus
Source
Sink
Mobile Sink
Excessive Power
Consumption
Increased Wireless
Transmission
Collisions
State Maintenance
Overhead
Goal, Idea
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Efficient and scalable data dissemination from
multiple sources to multiple, mobile sinks
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Two-tier forwarding model
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Source proactively builds a grid structure
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Localize impact of sink mobility on data forwarding
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A small set of sensor node maintains forwarding state
Grid setup
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Source proactively divide the plane into αXα square cells,
with itself at one of the crossing point of the grid.
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The source calculates the locations of its four neighboring
dissemination points
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The source sends a data-announcement message to reach
these neighbors using greedy geographical forwarding
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The node serving the point called dissemination node
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This continues…
TTDD Basics
Dissemination Node
Data Announcement
Source
Data
Sink
Query
Immediate
Dissemination
Node
TTDD Mobile Sinks
Dissemination Node
Trajectory
Forwarding
Data Announcement
Source
Immediate
Dissemination
Node
Data
Sink
Immediate
Dissemination
Node
Trajectory
Forwarding
TTDD Multiple Mobile Sinks
Dissemination Node
Trajectory
Forwarding
Data Announcement
Source
Immediate
Dissemination
Node
Data
Source
Trajectory Forwarding
Conclusion
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TTDD: two-tier data dissemination Model
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Proactive sources
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Exploit sensor nodes being stationary and location-aware
Construct & maintain a grid structure with low overhead
Localize sink mobility impact
Infrastructure-approach in stationary sensor
networks
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Efficiency & effectiveness in supporting mobile sinks
The Future of WSNs
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Fundamental requirements today only
partially fulfilled
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Think of new applications
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Intelligent environments for gaming
… <your idea here>
Still a lot to do…
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Long life-time with/without batteries
Self-configuring, self-healing networks
Robust routing, robust data transmission
Management and integration
Integration of new/future radio technologies
Cheap indoor localization (+/- 10cm)
More system aspects (security, middleware, …)
Prove scalability, robustness
Make it cheaper, simpler to use
Already today: Flexible add-on for existing
environmental monitoring networks
Major References
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TTDD: http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1160112
“ A survey on sensor networks”
http://wwwnet.cs.umass.edu/cs791_sensornets/papers/akyildiz2.p
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Routing techniques in wireless sensor networks: A
Survey
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumb
er=1368893&userType=inst
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