A Storage Centric Approach to Scalable Sensor Networks


GÖRMÜŞ S., Koc A. G., Jin Y., Sooriyabandara M.

IEEE VTC, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 11 - 14 May 2015, pp.1100-1106, (Full Text)

  • Publication Type: Conference Paper / Full Text
  • City: Glasgow
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Page Numbers: pp.1100-1106
  • Karadeniz Technical University Affiliated: No

Abstract

With the advent of Machine to Machine (M2M) communication, we are witnessing an increased interest towards technologies that will enable efficient and reliable operation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Such networks are expected to include a large number of sensor devices which will generate large body of M2M traffic. To reduce the impact of this M2M traffic, efficient storage and retrieval methods should be employed in a distributed manner for the successful deployment of this technology.

In this paper, a distributed storage solution is presented with the aim of reducing the impact of M2M traffic on data centers and the network backbone. The reliable and efficient storage of the sensor data is established by taking advantage of codes with Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) properties. The solution is implanted in Contiki OS using RPL protocol and its performance is evaluated through simulations. Furthermore, to realise such a system, a centralised clique finding algorithm is demonstrated and bench-marked against a solution that uses a brute force approach.