Mobility in WSNs for critical applications

• Published in: 2011 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC) pp. 451 - 456
• Main Authors: Silva, R., Zinonos, Z., Sa Silva, Jorge, Vassiliou, V.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.06.2011
• Subjects: Energy consumption; Manganese; Mobile communication; Monitoring; Reliability; Topology; Wireless sensor networks

Recent critical application sectors of sensor networks like military, health care, and industry require the use of mobile sensor nodes, something that poses unique challenges in aspects like handoff delay, packet loss, and reliability. In this paper we propose a novel mobility model that handles tho...