Embedded and Networking Systems

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

CONTENTS

9.1    Introduction

9.2    Related Work

9.3    Proposed Network Structure

9.4    Network Formation Algorithm

9.5    Numerical Analyses

9.6    Simulations

9.7    Analysis

9.8    Conclusions

References

9.1    INTRODUCTION

Wireless sensor networks comprise large numbers of wireless sensor nodes. The compact design of a wireless sensor node allows it to fit into 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 ...