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Geometric Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks

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This chapter surveys routing algorithms for wireless sensor networks that use geometric ideas and abstractions. Wireless sensor networks have a unique geometric character as the sensor nodes are embedded in, and designed to monitor, the physical space. Thus the geometric embedding of the network can be exploited for scalable and efficient routing algorithm design. This chapter starts with geographical routing that use nodes’ geographical locations to guide the choice of the next hop node on the routing path. The scalability of geographical routing motivates more work on the design of virtual coordinates with which greedy routing algorithms are developed and applied to route messages in the network. The last section is concerned about data-centric routing, in which a query is routed to reach the sensor node holding data of interest. Thus the challenge is to discover the “source node” that possess the data as well as route the message there.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    A graph is rigid in the plane is one can not continuous deform the shape of the graph without altering the lengths of the edges. A graph is globally rigid if it admits a unique embedding in the plane, subject to global rotation and translations.

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    Two nodes within distance 1 are connected by an edge in a unit disk graph.

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    A graph is 3-connected if it remains connected after the removal of any 2 nodes.

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    The problem is to find a destination on a circle without knowing whether it is shorter to go clockwise or counterclockwise. With a doubling trick, one can first take 1 step clockwise from the starting point. If the destination is not reached, turn back and go counterclockwise from the starting point for 2 steps. If the destination is still not reached, turn back and go clockwise from the starting point for 4 steps and so on. Within O(k) steps in total, one can find the destination if the destination is k steps away.

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    Gao, J. (2009). Geometric Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Misra, S., Woungang, I., Misra, S. (eds) Guide to Wireless Sensor Networks. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-218-4_5

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