Self-Configuring Sensors for Uncharted Environments

摘要: Sensor networks (SN) have arisen as one of the most promising monitoring technologies. The recent emergence small and inexpensive sensors ease development proliferation this kind in a wide range actualworldapplications.1 So far majority SN deployments assumed that can be configured prior to their deployment because area events monitor are well known at design time. Nevertheless, when purpose anSN is an environment such distribution nature its uncertain, we cannot longer assume Instead, must endowed with capacity autonomously reconfiguring coordinating order maximize amount information they perceive over In paper, propose low cost (in terms energy computation) collective distributed algorithm, so-called search diffusion (CDS) which allows collaboratively for configurations based only on local knowledge. We empirically show CDSalgorithm helps efficiently environments where various dynamic occur while showing high degrees resilience sensor failures. Both features make suitable tool remote and/or hostile uncharted environments.