- Distributed Services for Self-Organizing Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Distributed sensor systems are useful for gathering critical and real-time information from many dispersed integrated low-powered sensors and mobile devices [1-3] that could steer the control operations of dynamically changing enterprise systems, such as the battle¢eld, manufacturing, and commercial inventory and distribution systems. Ÿese mobile and miniaturized information devices are equipped with embedded processors, wireless communication circuitry, information storage capability, smart sensors, and actuators. Ÿese sensor nodes networked in an ad hoc way, with little or no ¢xed network support, to provide the surveillance, targeting, and feedback information for dynamic control of enterprises. Sensor devices are mobile, subject to failure, deployed spontaneously, and repositioned for more accurate surveillance. Despite these dynamic changes in con¢guration of the sensor network, critical real-time information must still be disseminated dynamically from mobile sensor data sources through a self-organizing network infrastructure to the components that control dynamic replanning and reoptimization of the theater of operation based on newly available information.