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Efficient Computation of MIN and MAX in Multihop Networks (by exploiting a prioritized MAC protocol)
Ref: HURRAY-TR-080901       Publication Date: 1, Apr, 2009

Efficient Computation of MIN and MAX in Multihop Networks (by exploiting a prioritized MAC protocol)

Ref: HURRAY-TR-080901       Publication Date: 1, Apr, 2009

Abstract:
Consider a wireless sensor network (WSN) where a broadcast from a sensor node does not reach all sensor nodes in the network; such networks are often called multihop networks. Sensor nodes take sensor readings but individual sensor readings are not very important. It is important however to compute aggregated quantities of these sensor readings. The minimum and maximum of all sensor readings at an instant are often interesting because they indicate abnormal behavior, for example if the maximum temperature is very high then it may be that a fire has broken out. We propose an algorithm for computing the min or max of sensor reading in a multihop network. This algorithm has the particularly interesting property of having a time complexity that does not depend on the number of sensor nodes; only the network diameter and the range of the value domain of sensor readings matter.

Authors:
Nuno Pereira
,
Björn Andersson
,
Eduardo Tovar
,
Paulo Manuel Martins de Carvalho


Published in Intelligent Technical Systems, Springer Netherlands, Volume 38.
Part V, pp 233-246.
Netherlands.

DOI:10.1007/978-1-4020-9823-9_17.
ISBN: 978-1-4020-9822-2.



Record Date: 1, Apr, 2009