Performance Issues and Network Design for Sensor Networks

Hiroshi SAITO  Hiroya MINAMI  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Communications   Vol.E87-B   No.2   pp.294-301
Publication Date: 2004/02/01
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Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Network
Keyword: 
sensor network,  ubiquitous,  performance metric,  performance measure,  QoS metric,  QoS measure,  performance evaluation,  

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Summary: 
This paper discusses performance issues for a sensor network. It describes the unique features of the sensor network and discusses studies on its protocols. Performance measures for the sensor network are investigated and studies related to them are surveyed. As an example of performance measures, this paper analyzes a sensor network's availability, which is the probability that all the sensor nodes are working without any of them having run out of energy. An explicit formula for the sensor network availability is derived, and the optimal placement of sensor nodes is investigated.