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Paper Review: Power Saving Mechanism with Network coding in the bottleneck zone of multimedia
sensor networks
CSC 535 Advanced Computer Networking
Paper Review: Power Saving Mechanism with Network coding in the bottleneck zone of
multimedia sensor networks
By Kyu-Hwan Lee, Jae-Hyun Kim, Sunghyun Cho
Adedotun Ojelabi
University of Michigan – Flint
April 11, 2016
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Paper Review: Power Saving Mechanism with Network coding in the bottleneck zone of multimedia
sensor networks
CSC 535 Advanced Computer Networking
Definition of Terms
ATIM – Announcement Traffic Indication Message
GPS – Global Positioning System
LAN- Local Area Network
WSN- Wireless Network Sensor
WAN- Wide Area Network
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Paper Review: Power Saving Mechanism with Network coding in the bottleneck zone of multimedia
sensor networks
CSC 535 Advanced Computer Networking
Abstract
Wireless sensors networks (WSNs) are increasingly being used in many application that ranges
from Military surveillance to environmental monitoring, seismic monitoring, disaster monitoring
and many more.
The bigger the scale of deployment of Wireless sensor networks, the higher the number of
sensors deployed to monitor a target area that would consequently have a number of network
bottleneck zones which will vary depending on topology and other factors.
Power consumption is one of the major constraints facing the design and deployment of wireless
sensor networks. The paper in review offered a power saving mechanism using network coding
and duty cycling in the bottleneck zone of WSNs.
This paper shall provide a generic overview of Wireless Sensor Networks, critique the proposed
mechanism for saving power consumption as well as explore other mechanisms or method of
having an energy efficiency in WSN bottleneck zones.
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Paper Review: Power Saving Mechanism with Network coding in the bottleneck zone of multimedia
sensor networks
CSC 535 Advanced Computer Networking
1. Introduction
A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) as evident in its name is a wireless network that is made
up of autonomous sensing devices distributed in a target area where data is to be collected. A
WSN is a network that serves as a bridge between a physical network-WAN, LAN and a
virtual worlds. In other words, there is a gateway that provides wireless connection to a wired
network and other nodes in the WSN.
Figure 1. Sketch of a Wireless Sensor Network
The development of WSNs was inspired by military applications, notably surveillance in
conflict zones1. There are a number of other applications that Wireless Sensor Networks are
being used, to name a few of them;
• Monitoring of environment –Air, Soil, Water
• Asset Tracking
• Rapid emergency Response
• Structuring monitoring – Buildings, Bridges
• Perimeter Security and Surveillance
• Process Monitoring
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Paper Review: Power Saving Mechanism with Network coding in the bottleneck zone of multimedia
sensor networks
WSNs are expected to be major components in the Internet of things (IoT) and the Web of things
(WoT) thanks to low-w cost hardware miniaturization and advances in wireless communication2.
2. Basic Component & Architecture of a Wireless Sensor Networks
2.1 Wireless Sensor Networks Node
The basic component a of Wireless Sensor Network node consist of the following;
• Power Source
• Memory
• Processor
• Sensors
