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Self-Organization of Sensor Networks with Heterogeneous Connectivity

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Most research on wireless sensor networks has focused on homogeneous networks where all nodes have identical transmission ranges. However, heterogeneous networks, where nodes have different transmission ranges, are potentially much more efficient. In this chapter, we study how heterogeneous networks can be configured by distributed self-organization algorithms where each node selects its own transmission range based on local information. We define a specific performance function, and show empirically that self-organization based on local information produces networks that are close to optimal, and that including more information provides only marginal benefit. We also investigate whether the quality of networks configured by self-organization results from their generic connectivity distribution (as is argued for scale-free networks) or from their specific pattern of heterogeneous connectivity, finding the latter to be the case. The study confirms that heterogeneous networks outperform homogeneous ones, though with randomly deployed nodes, networks that seek homogeneous out-degree have an advantage over networks that simply use the same transmission range for all nodes. Finally, our simulation results show that highly optimized network configurations are as robust as non-optimized ones with respect to random node failure, but are much more susceptible to targeted attacks that preferentially remove nodes with the highest connectivity, confirming the trade-off between optimality and robustness postulated for optimized complex systems.

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    Arun Prasath, Abhinay Venuturumilli & Ali A. Minai

  2. Microchip Technology, Chandler, AZ, USA

    Abhinay Venuturumilli

  3. CS Department, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Aravind Ranganathan

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Prasath, A., Venuturumilli, A., Ranganathan, A., Minai, A.A. (2010). Self-Organization of Sensor Networks with Heterogeneous Connectivity. In: Ferrari, G. (eds) Sensor Networks. Signals and Communication Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01341-6_3

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