WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK

• US 20110069611A1
• Filed: 05/08/2009
• Published: 03/24/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/20/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Gangneung-Wonju National University Industry Academy Cooperation Group
• Original Assignee: Gangneung-Wonju National University Industry Academy Cooperation Group
• Inventors: Moon, Jung-Ho, Chung, Tae-Yun, Park, Yong-Soon
• Application Number:
  US12/992,016
• Publication Number:
  US 20110069611A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/225
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/22 using selective relaying for reaching a BTS [Base Transceiver Station] or an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/32 for defining a routing cluster membership
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Provided is a wireless sensor network including: a plurality of sensor nodes connected linearly; a sink node connected to the uppermost node among the sensor nodes; a control server; a gateway connected between the sink node and the control server to transmit and receive data; and a plurality of relay gateways. In the case where the plurality of the sensor nodes are divided into a predetermined number of subgroups, the sensor nodes located at the highest levels in the divided subgroups and which are connected to the relay gateways are designated as relay nodes. In the case where an amount of data stored in the relay node exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the relay node transmits the stored data through the connected relay gateway to the control server. Accordingly, in the case where the data of the sensor nodes are increased, it is possible to minimize a problem in that the increased data are lost during transmission.

Claims

1. A wireless sensor network comprising:

a plurality of sensor nodes connected linearly;

a sink node connected to the uppermost node among the sensor nodes;

a control server configured to transmit and receive data with respect to the sensor nodes and the sink node and to control operations thereof;

a gateway connected between the sink node and the control server to transmit and receive data; and

a plurality of relay gateways connected to the control server,

wherein the plurality of the sensor nodes are divided into a predetermined number of subgroups, the sensor nodes located at the highest levels in the divided subgroups are designated as relay nodes, and each of the relay nodes is connected to each of the relay gateways.

2. The wireless sensor network according to claim 1, wherein in the case where an amount of data stored in the buffer of the relay node exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the data stored through the connected relay gateway are transmitted to the control server.

3. The wireless sensor network according to claim 2, wherein the relay node determines whether or not the amount of data stored in the buffer reaches the threshold value, wherein in the case where the amount of the data is determined to reach the threshold value, the relay node determines whether or not a portion of the data stored in the buffer is the data that are to be transmitted to the sink node, and wherein in the case where the portion of the data is determined to be the data that are to be transmitted to the sink node, the relay node transmits the data toward the sink node.

4. A wireless sensor network comprising:

a plurality of sensor nodes connected linearly;

a sink node connected to the uppermost node among the sensor nodes;

a control server;

a gateway connected between the sink node and the control server to transmit and receive data; and

a plurality of relay gateways connected to the control server,

wherein the plurality of the sensor nodes are divided into a predetermined number of subgroups, the sensor nodes located at the highest levels in the divided subgroups are designated as relay nodes, and each of the relay nodes is connected to each of the relay gateways, and

wherein in the case where a portion of the sensor nodes is error nodes in a communication-failed state, the relay node of lower subgroups located at lower levels of the subgroups in which the error nodes are included are converted to relay sink nodes, and the relay sink nodes transmit and receive data with respect to the control server through the connected relay gateway.

5. The wireless sensor network according to claim 4, wherein a communication-failed state of the sensor node occurs in the case where failure of network link occurs in the sensor node and a recovery of the failure of the network link is failed.

6. The wireless sensor network according to claim 4, wherein relay sink node searches for a sensor node located at a higher level, and wherein, as a result of the searching, in the case where the sensor node located at the higher level is searched, the relay sink node is reverted to the relay node to recover a communication passage with respect to the searched sensor nodes located at the higher level and to transmit the data through the recovered communication passage.