Dependable Messaging in Wireless Sensor Networks Architecture and Protocols

Messaging is a basic service in sensor networks §(a.k.a, sensornets). Yet the unique system and §application properties of sensornets pose §substantial challenges for the messaging design: 1) §dynamic wireless links, constrained resources, and §application diversity challenge the architecture and §protocol design of sensornet messaging; and 2) §complex faults and large system scale introduce new §challenges to the design of fault-tolerant protocols.§§To address the aforementioned challenges, this book §examines the architecture of sensornet messaging, §identifies the design principles of dependable §sensornet messaging, and presents techniques of §designing fault-tolerant protocols in the presence §of complex faults and large system scale. Taking a §holistic approach to addressing the challenges of §dependable sensornet messaging, this book can help §readers appreciate the basic principles and §techniques of sensornet messaging, and it can serve §as a useful reference for graduate students, §researchers, and practitioners in wireless sensor §networks. Messaging is a basic service in sensor networks §(a.k.a, sensornets). Yet the unique system and §application properties of sensornets pose §substantial challenges for the messaging design: 1) §dynamic wireless links, constrained resources, and §application diversity challenge the architecture and §protocol design of sensornet messaging; and 2) §complex faults and large system scale introduce new §challenges to the design of fault-tolerant protocols.§To address the aforementioned challenges, this book §examines the architecture of sensornet messaging, §identifies the design principles of dependable §sensornet messaging, and presents techniques of §designing fault-tolerant protocols in the presence §of complex faults and large system scale. Taking a §holistic approach to addressing the challenges of §dependable sensornet messaging, this book can help §readers appreciate the basic principles and §techniques of sensornet messaging, and it can serve §as a useful reference for graduate students, §researchers, and practitioners in wireless sensor §networks.