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Title:	Heterogeneity-aware and energy-aware scheduling and routing in wireless sensor networks
Author:	Vasanthu Somashekar, Mahesh Kumar
View Online:	njit-etd2012-017 (vii, 36 pages ~ 1.1 MB pdf)
Department:	Department of Computer Science
Degree:	Master of Science
Program:	Computer Science
Document Type:	Thesis
Advisory Committee:	Wang, Guiling (Committee chair) Oria, Vincent (Committee member) Roshan, Usman W. (Committee member)
Date:	2012-05
Keywords:	Wireless sensor networks Scheduling Routing
Availability:	Unrestricted
Abstract:	A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is a group of specialized transducers, called sensor nodes, with a communication infrastructure intended to monitor and record conditions at diverse locations. Since WSN applications are usually deployed in an open environment, the network is exposed to rough weather conditions, such as rain and snow. Another problem that WSN applications need to deal with is the energy constraints of sensor nodes. Both problems adversely affect the lifetime of WSN applications. A lot of research has been conducted to prolong the lifetime of WSN applications considering energy constraints of sensor nodes, but not much research has gone into tackling both the environmental effects and energy constraints. The goal of this research is to efficiently deal with these two problems and provide a solution for scheduling and routing in a heterogeneous sensor network. The research has been divided into two phases - Scheduling and Routing. In the scheduling phase, only some sensor nodes are scheduled to run for a particular timeslot and during that timeslot other sensor nodes are kept in sleep mode. A set of sensor nodes for a timeslot is chosen based on their positional information. In the routing phase, a least cost route from a sensor to the sink is dynamically determined to prolong the lifetime of the sensor network.