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Efficient and Robust Protocols for Local Detection and Propagation in Smart Dust Networks

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Smart Dust is a set of a vast number of ultra-small fully autonomous computing and communication devices, with very restricted energy and computing capabilities, that co-operate to quickly and efficiently accomplish a large sensing task. Smart Dust can be very useful in practice, i.e., in the local detection of a remote crucial event and the propagation of data reporting its realization. In this work we make an effort towards the research on smart dust from an algorithmic point of view. We first provide a simple but realistic model for smart dust and present an interesting problem, which is how to propagate efficiently information on an event detected locally. Then we present various smart dust protocols for local detection and propagation that are simple enough to be implemented on real smart dust systems, and perform, under some simplifying assumptions, a rigorous average case analysis of their efficiency and energy consumption (and their interplay). This analysis leads to concrete results showing that our protocols are very efficient and robust. We also validate the analytical results by extensive experiments.

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    Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sotiris Nikoletseas & Paul Spirakis

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Chatzigiannakis, I., Nikoletseas, S. & Spirakis, P. Efficient and Robust Protocols for Local Detection and Propagation in Smart Dust Networks. Mobile Networks and Applications 10, 133–149 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:MONE.0000048551.54039.f0

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