Building Sensor Networks

7	A Network Structure for Delay-Aware Applications in Wireless Sensor Networks
Chi-Tsun Cheng, Chi K. Tse, and Francis C. M. Lau

CONTENTS

7.1  Introduction

7.2  Related Work

7.3  The Proposed Network Structure

7.4  Network-Formation Algorithm

7.5  Numerical Analysis

7.6  Simulations

7.7  Analysis

7.8  Conclusions

References

7.1  INTRODUCTION

Wireless sensor networks comprise large numbers of wireless sensor nodes. The compact design of wireless sensor nodes allows them to fit in most environments and perform close-range sensing. Such a unique feature makes wireless sensor networks highly suitable for monitoring in extreme conditions. In most sensing applications, sensing information should be sampled regularly and spatially over a period ...