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Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Falko Dressler

Efficient Data Management in Mobile Sensor Networks using Peer-to-Peer Technologies

Institutions

Team

Funding

  • DAAD grant "Peer-to-peer techniques for sensor networks" (331 4 04 001)

Project Time

  • 01.04.2006 - 31.13.2009

Description

The primary research goals are the integration of mechanisms and methodologies learnt from peer-to-peer research in the field of sensor networks. It appears obvious that several technologies developed for peer-to-peer systems can be directly applied to the open issues in multi-hop ad hoc sensor networks because the primary structure of both network types is identical. Peer-to-peer networks try to build an overlay structure on existing networks. Using this overlay network, new communication paradigms can be applied and special hardware and software required for interconnecting single nodes in the physical structure are hidden from the applications point of view. The primary goals of peer-to-peer systems were the allocation and distributed utilization of available resources such as processing power and data storage.
The figure shows the principles of the intended construction. The physical sensor network is mapped to an overlay network as described in the peer-to-peer research area. At this level, task selection, data location lookup, and data forwarding is optimized. Finally, the single operations such as store and forward are mapped to lower level functionality.
In the proposed research plan, the primary focus is on task allocation, data storage, data aggregation, and data transport in multi-hop ad hoc networks.
The lessons learned in peer-to-peer research should be applied to the field of sensor networks and embedded systems. Besides the described similarities between both research areas, the main difference is the problem of low power resources in typical sensor networks. Therefore, the algorithms must be analyzed and possibly reconstructed with the power consumption in mind.
The final objective is to develop methodologies for task allocation and data management which are very efficient in terms of speed, adaptability, and power consumption.

Selected Publications

  • Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Exploiting Virtual Coordinates for Improved Routing Performance in Sensor Networks," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 10 (9), pp. 1214–1226, September 2011. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Falko Dressler, Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Mario Gerla, "Enabling Inter-Domain Routing in Virtual Coordinate Based Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 15th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2009), Poster Session, Beijing, China, September 2009. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Efficient Service Discovery in Sensor Networks using VCP," Proceedings of 15th ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2009), Demo Session, Beijing, China, September 2009. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Efficient Routing and Service Discovery in Sensor Networks using Virtual Cord Routing," Proceedings of 7th ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2009), Demo Session, Kraków, Poland, June 2009. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Abdalkarim Awad, Lei Shi, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Advantages of Virtual Addressing for Efficient and Failure Tolerant Routing in Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 6th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2009), Snowbird, UT, February 2009, pp. 111–118. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Abdalkarim Awad, Christoph Sommer, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "Virtual Cord Protocol (VCP): A Flexible DHT-like Routing Service for Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 5th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2008), Atlanta, GA, September 2008, pp. 133–142. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Abdalkarim Awad, Rodrigo Nebel, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "On the Need for Passive Monitoring in Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 11th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design - Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2008), Parma, Italy, September 2008, pp. 693–699. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Abdalkarim Awad, Reinhard German and Falko Dressler, "P2P-based Routing and Data Management using the Virtual Cord Protocol (VCP)," Proceedings of 9th ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc 2008), Poster Session, Hong Kong, China, May 2008, pp. 443–444. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
  • Sebastian Dengler, Abdalkarim Awad and Falko Dressler, "Sensor/Actuator Networks in Smart Homes for Supporting Elderly and Handicapped People," Proceedings of 21st IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2007), 1st IEEE International Workshop on Smart Homes for Tele-Health (SmarTel 2007), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 2007, pp. 863–868. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
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