TY - GEN
T1 - On the relation between capacity and number of sinks in an sensor network
AU - Rao, Rajesh N.
AU - Kesidis, George
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Surveillance data generated by the nodes of a wireless ad-hoc (multihop) sensor network is aggregated at local sinks and forwarded to a central node. The number of sensor nodes that the sinks can support determines a "capacity" of the network. The number of surveillance data flows (each emanating from a sensor node) that a node can relay is limited by a variety of factors such as channel conditions (including interference, attenuation, fading and ambient noise) and internal hardware and energy resources of the node. Assuming that the one-hop neighbors of a sink form the most significant communication relaying bottleneck, we analytically determine the fraction of sensor nodes that are unable to connect to their sink, i.e., the outage probability. This expression is numerically evaluated and its accuracy is assessed and reported in a preliminary simulation study.
AB - Surveillance data generated by the nodes of a wireless ad-hoc (multihop) sensor network is aggregated at local sinks and forwarded to a central node. The number of sensor nodes that the sinks can support determines a "capacity" of the network. The number of surveillance data flows (each emanating from a sensor node) that a node can relay is limited by a variety of factors such as channel conditions (including interference, attenuation, fading and ambient noise) and internal hardware and energy resources of the node. Assuming that the one-hop neighbors of a sink form the most significant communication relaying bottleneck, we analytically determine the fraction of sensor nodes that are unable to connect to their sink, i.e., the outage probability. This expression is numerically evaluated and its accuracy is assessed and reported in a preliminary simulation study.
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.510
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2006.510
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:50949113195
SN - 142440357X
SN - 9781424403578
T3 - GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
BT - IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - 2006 Global Telecommunications Conference
T2 - IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - 2006 Global Telecommunications Conference
Y2 - 27 November 2006 through 1 December 2006
ER -