Design of a Large Scale Multi-Cluster Wireless Sensor Network

Dongmei Zhao; Xuemin (Sherman) Shen

ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium

Research Article

Design of a Large Scale Multi-Cluster Wireless Sensor Network

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    author={Dongmei Zhao and Xuemin (Sherman) Shen},
    title={Design of a Large Scale Multi-Cluster Wireless Sensor Network},
    proceedings={ChinaCom2009-Wireless Communications and Networking Symposium},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM2009-WCN},
    year={2009},
    month={11},
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    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339876}
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Dongmei Zhao
Xuemin (Sherman) Shen
Year: 2009
Design of a Large Scale Multi-Cluster Wireless Sensor Network
CHINACOM2009-WCN
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339876

Dongmei Zhao¹, Xuemin (Sherman) Shen²

1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering McMaster University Hamilton, Ontario, L8S 4K1
2: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1

Abstract

In this paper we propose a new approach to designing a large scale wireless sensor network (WSN) with a cluster-tree topology. Sensors in each cluster communicate directly with their associated cluster head (CH) through contention-based transmissions, and communications between CHs use contention free transmissions. The objective is to balance the energy consumptions of all the CHs, while providing satisfactory throughput. Given the network coverage and throughput requirement, we find the total number of levels of the cluster tree, number and coverage area of the clusters in each level, and amounts of time for contention-based and contention free transmissions at each CH. Our results show some interesting observations about traffic load distribution among the clusters and the CH timeline allocations.

Published: 2009-11-20
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2009.5339876