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Falko Dressler, Margit Mutschlechner, Bijun Li, Rüdiger Kapitza, Simon P. Ripperger, Christopher Eibel, Benedict Herzog, Timo Hönig and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, "Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), vol. 12 (1), February 2016.

Abstract

We explore the advantages of using Erasure Codes (ECs) in a very challenging sensor networking scenario, namely monitoring and tracking bats in the wild. The mobile bat nodes collect contact information that needs to be transmitted to stationary base stations whenever being in communication range. We are particularly interested in improving the overall communication reliability of the wireless communication. The mobile nodes are capable to store a few 100 kB of data and to exchange contact information in aggregated form. Due to the continuous flight of the bats and the forest environment, the wireless channel quality varies quickly and, thus, the communication is in general assumed to be highly unreliable. Given the very strict energy constraints of the mobile node and the inherently asymmetric channels, conventional techniques such as full data replication or Automatic Repeat Request to improve the communication reliability are prohibitive. In this work, we investigate the trade-off between reliability achieved and the cost in form of additional transmissions, i.e., the additional energy costs. Our energy measurements on a real platform combined with larger scale simulation of the wireless communication clearly indicate the advantages of using ECs in our scenario. The results are also applicable in other configurations when unreliable communication channels meet tight energy budgets.

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Falko Dressler
Margit Mutschlechner
Bijun Li
Rüdiger Kapitza
Simon P. Ripperger
Christopher Eibel
Benedict Herzog
Timo Hönig
Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

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@article{dressler2016monitoring,
    author = {Dressler, Falko and Mutschlechner, Margit and Li, Bijun and Kapitza, R{\"{u}}diger and Ripperger, Simon P. and Eibel, Christopher and Herzog, Benedict and H{\"{o}}nig, Timo and Schr{\"{o}}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
    doi = {10.1145/2875426},
    title = {{Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks}},
    journal = {ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)},
    issn = {1550-4859},
    publisher = {ACM},
    month = {2},
    number = {1},
    volume = {12},
    year = {2016},
   }
   
   

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