Building Wireless Sensor Networks

2Wireless Sensor Networks Architecture

2.1 Introduction

Advances in wireless communication and electronics during the last couple of decades have made it possible to deploy multi-hop wireless sensor networks for various applications. These wireless sensor network applications require that the network be ad hoc, self-organising and self-configurable in nature. The communication protocol, network architecture must be standardized to fulfill the above requirements. A common sensor network architecture has many benefits in terms of interoperability and code reuse. Researchers have been engaged for a long time to propose an acceptable sensor network architecture to support all types of sensor devices and their various applications. Nevertheless, ...