Mobility effects on WSN Performance

Overview:

In wireless sensor network (WSN), the individual sensor nodes are generally assumed to be static. However, some recent applications of WSN (e.g. in medical care and disaster response) make use of mobile sensor nodes, which poses additional challenges for using WSN. Issues regarding mobility in WSN needs to be studied and resolved in order to extend the use of WSN in mobile applications. The scarce-resources available in WSN further complicate the problems faced in relation to mobility in WSN.

This thesis will focus on establishing a relationship on low-speed mobility on the different performance parameters like energy consumption, data throughput etc. The hybrid testbed called, DES-Testbed, is deployed by our group will be used to perform extensive experimentation, gathering data and analyzing the results to reach onto concrete conclusions. Battery-powered mobile sensor nodes (MSB-A2) will be used to study the effects of mobility in WSN.

Objectives:

• To understand DES-Testbed and get familiar with MSB-A2 node

• To design and perform different  experiments on DES-Testbed
• Gather and evaluate results to relate the relationship of low speed mobility on different performance parameters in WSN