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Embedded Systems for Wireless Sensor Network
Rabi Mahapatra
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Background
• Advancement of integration between “tiny embedded processors, wireless interfaces, and “micro-sensors” based on MEMS led to emergence of wireless sensor network.
• Characterized by their ability to monitor the physical environment through ad-hoc deployment of numerous tiny, intelligent, wirelessly networked sensor nodes.
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• Large number of heterogeneous sensor devices– Ad Hoc Network
• complex sensor nodes with– communication, processing, storage capabilities
What is Wireless Sensor Networks
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Emerging applications
• Indoor Settings: condition based maintenance of equipment in factory
• Outdoor environment:– Monitor natural habitats– Remote ecosystems– Forest fires– Disaster sites– Defense armaments– Spy microsats
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Challenges of WSN• Requirements: small size, large number, tetherless and low
cost. Hence constrained by– Energy, computation and communication
• Small form factors => prohibits large long lasting batteries• Cost & energy => low power processors, small radios with
minimum bandwidth & small transmission ranges.• Ad-hoc deployment => no maintenance and battery
replacement• Increase NW lifetime => No raw data to gateway for
computation
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Topics to be discussed
• Simulation tools on WSN• A simulation architecture overview• Sensor node model & framework of SN• Battery model• Case studies• Bonus points
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Existing SimulatorsJavaSim:
• Pros – Very modular– Easy to use
• Cons– Geared for wired inter-networks– No wireless support, not efficient due to overheadSSFNet: a parallel simulator for wirelessGlomoSim:
• Specific for mobile wireless networks. • Built as a set of libraries. The libraries are built in Parsec( a C-based
discrete event simulation language).• Layered architecture with easy plug-in capability.
SSFNet and Glomosim are not better than NS-2 in terms of design and extensibility.
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Existing Simulators • NS-2: De facto standard for network simulations
– Does support wireless simulations– A primitive energy model is present.– Object oriented design and Lots of documentation.– Uses Tcl to specify the Components, and Otcl to glue them
together.Cons:– Difficult to use and learn – Interdependency among modules pose difficult to implement new
protocols.– Originally built for wired networks, later extended for wireless.– Supposedly, does not work well for large topologies.
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More Sensor Network Simulator• WSNS
– Based on Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH) protocol developed by Dr. Wendi Heinzelman
– Has included Network Preserving Protocol (NPP) for better performance along with LEACH
– Not completed for robustness
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Sensor Network SimulatorSENSE (www.cs.rpi.edu/~cheng3/sense/)
• Component Features: (2004)– Battery Model: Linear Battery, Discharge Rate
Dependent and/or Relaxation Battery – Application Layer : Random Neighbor; Constant Bit
Rate – Network Layer: Simple Flooding; a simplified verion of
ADOV without route repairing, a simplified version of DSR without route repairing
– MAC Layer: NullMAC; IEEE 802.11 – Physical Layer: Duplex Transceiver; Wireless Channel – Simulation Engine: CostSimEng (sequential)
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Status of simulators
• Other simulator: OpNET• All these tools are not equipped to capture all the aspects
of interests in sensor networks.
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Simulator: SensorSim from UCLA
• Extension to NS - 2.• Provides battery models, radio propagation models and
sensor channel models.• Provides a lightweight protocol stack.• Has support for hybrid simulation.• Must be integrated with NS - 2.
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SensorSim Architecture
monitor and controlhybrid network
(local or remote)
Simulation Machine
Gateway Machine
ns
modified event scheduler
VR
V
VV
GUI appapp
R
real sensor apps onvirtual sensor nodes
gateway
socketcomm
serialcomm
HS InterfaceEthernet RS232
Proxies for realsensor nodes
GUI Interface
app
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SensorSim Architecture Overview
• Sensor NW has three types of nodes:– Sensor nodes: monitor immediate environment, with many
transducers– Target nodes: generates various stimuli for sensor nodes– User nodes: client and administration of sensor network
• Separate channels: – Sensor channels: communication among sensor nodes and target– Network channels: to user node or gateways and onward
transmission to other network.– Concurrent transmission possible– Easier to model complex behavior of sensor nodes, reaction to
multiple sensor signals.
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Sensor Network Model architecture
Sensor channel
Wireless channel
sensorsensor sensor
Target
user
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SensorSim Model
• Sensor node => one wireless NW protocol stack, one or more sensor stack corresponds to as many transducers– Sensor stack detects stimuli, process it and forward them to
application layer, which in turn process and send them to user node through wireless channel
– A power model corresponding to energy producing-consuming hardware components is also provided. These component can stay at different power saving and performance states.
– The algorithm in both the stacks control the mode of power states of hardware components. Also, performance of the algorithm depends on the mode.
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Sensor Node Model in SensorSim
Node Function Model
Network Layer
Sensor Node
Applications
Power Model(Energy Consumers and Providers)
Battery Model
Radio Model
CPU Model
Sensor #1 Model
Sensor #2 Model
MAC Layer
Physical Layer
Sensor Layer
Wireless Channel Sensor Channel 1
NetworkProtocol Stack
SensorProtocol Stack
Middleware
Physical Layer
State Change
StatusCheck
Sensor Stack 1
Sensor Layer
Physical Layer
Sensor Channel 2
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NetworkProtocol StackNetwork Layer
MAC Layer
Physical Layer
Wireless Channel
User Application
User Node
Sensor Stack
Sensor Layer
Physical Layer
Target Application
Sensor channel
Target Node
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Framework of Sensor Network Simulation
• Node Placement & traffic generation– Performance of WSN is affected when topology of node
distribution changes– Application requires a typical distribution (uniform for forest fire,
Gaussian for perimeter defense)– Three types of traffics: user-to-sensor (command & queries),
sensor-to-user (sensor reporting to user) and sensor-to-sensor (collaborative signal processing before reporting)
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Sensor Stack & Channel
• Sensor stack is a signal sink that is responsible for triggering the application layer every time a sensing event occurs
• Simple sensing scheme to elaborate signal processing can be implemented on sensor stack
• Sensor stack acts as a signal source in Target Node and contains signatures unique to the model
• Sensor channel model the medium of signal transmission (e.g. ground to carry seismic events).
• A good simulation tool should model varieties of mediums and type of sensors ( acoustic, infra red, ultrasonic)
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Battery Model
• Goal: increase the battery life time• Need to study how different aspects of real battery
behavior can affect the energy efficiency of applications• T = C/I, C is capacity in Ah. I is discharge current• Linear Model:
– Linear storage of current. Assumes the maximum capacity is unaffected by discharge rate.
– Allows user to see efficiency of user application by providing how much capacity is consumed. The remaining capacity after td can be expressed as C = C’ - � I(t)dt integral taken over period t = 0 to td
– It assumes that the I(t) will stay same during the period, if operation mode does not change (radio switching from Tx toRx)
– Remaining capacity is computed when discharge rate is changed
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Battery Model
• Discharge rate dependent model:– Considers the effect of battery discharge rate on maximum
capacity– Battery capacity efficiency factor K is introduced. K = Ceff /Cmax
– Capacity C = K.C’ – I . Td
– K varies with current I and is close to 1 when discharge rate is low and approaches 0 when discharge rate is high.
A Popular Battery Model: Dual Foil from UC Berkeley.
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Battery Model
• Relaxation Model:– Real-life battery exhibit a phenomenon called “relaxation”.(Fuller
94, Linden 95, Chiasserini 99)– When battery discharge rate is high, diffusion rate of active
ingredients through the electrode & electrolyte falls behind. If high discharge is sustained, the battery reaches its end even if the active materials are still available.
– However, if discharge current is either cut-off or reduced during the discharge, active materials catches up with depletion of thematerials. It gives battery to recover the capacity lost at highdischarge rate.
– An analytical model has been used for SensorSim
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Case Studies
• Low rate/low power vs. high rate/ high power (Fig. 7 in the reference)
• Monitoring a moving vehicle in a sensor field– Study the effect of traffic on the sensing and communication traffic
and evaluate the power management.
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Power Management Model
Transmit Receive
Off
Idle
BZR event
BZR event
BZR event
receive done
transmit
transmitdone
Without Power Management
Transmit Receive
Sleep
Off
Idletransmit
timeout(3 sec)
BZR eventBZR event
transmit
transmitdone
BZR event
receivedone
receivetimeout
With Power Management
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Some Important Studies
• Utility-based decision-making in WSN.• Upper bound on network life-time• Impact of mobility on capacity and life-time• Coverage and Density
– Criticality threshold, scalability, integration etc.
• Security• Ease of Deployment• Synchronization
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Conclusion
We have looked at some of the issues with SN and discussed the Sensor Network model developed at UCLA.
• Assignments:– Read the reference papers and look for more titles– Prepare a bibliography on each topic mentioned in the previous
page. – Consider one topic as assigned to you in the class and read apex
papers on that topic. – Summarize and comment on the contributions and shortcomings. – Due Tuesday morning by e-mail with file name as (your name-
sensor.doc)
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Reference
• Sung Park, A savvides & M B Srivastava, “Simulating Networks of Wireless Sensors”, Proceedings of the 2001 Winter Simulation Conference.