Muneeb Ali and Koen Langendoen
"A Case for Peer-to-Peer Network Overlays in Sensor Networks"
WWSNA / 6th IPSN 2007, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2007.

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Abstract

One of the primary roadblocks in pushing sensornet technology into the everyday lives of people is to provide mechanisms for co-existence and seamless integration of sensornets with other (more established) networks like the Internet, ad-hoc networks, wireless infrastructure-based networks, and personal area networks. In this paper, we argue for P2P overlays in sensornets as we believe that they hold the potential to provide powerful common abstractions for such seamless integration, eliminate the need for specific infrastructure/proxy support, and could help moving towards a general-purpose architecture for a future world-wide sensor web. We debunk some myths about why P2P overlays are not feasible in sensornets, propose a Chord-based P2P protocol called Tiered Chord (TChord), and show how TChord could seamlessly integrate sensornets with IP networks.

Bibtex Entry

Muneeb Ali and Koen Langendoen, "A Case for Peer-to-Peer Network Overlays in Sensor Networks", Proc. Int'l Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network Architecture (WWSNA'07), pp. 55-60, Cambridge, MA, USA, April 2007.

@inproceedings{ali07p2p,
author = {Muneeb Ali and Koen Langendoen},
title = {A Case for Peer-to-Peer Network Overlays in Sensor Networks},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Workshop on Wireless Sensor Network Architecture ({WWSNA}'07)},
address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
month = APR,
year = {2007},
pages = {55-60},
};