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Power aware routing for sensor databases

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Power aware routing for sensor databases
— Wireless sensor networks offer the potential to span and monitor large geographical areas inexpensively. Sensor network databases like TinyDB [1] are the dominant architectures to extract and manage data in such networks. Since sensors have significant power constraints (battery life), and high communication costs, design of energy efficient communication algorithms is of great importance. The data flow in a sensor database is very different from data flow in an ordinary network and poses novel challenges in designing efficient routing algorithms. In this work we explore the problem of energy efficient routing for various different types of database queries and show that in general, this problem is NP-complete. We give a constant factor approximation algorithm for one class of query, and for other queries give heuristic algorithms. We evaluate the efficiency of the proposed algorithms by simulation and demonstrate their near optimal performance for various network sizes.
Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Divyakant Agrawal, Subhash
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Updated 25 Jun 2010
Type Conference
Year 2005
Where INFOCOM
Authors Chiranjeeb Buragohain, Divyakant Agrawal, Subhash Suri
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