Sensor network for transmitting data and data transmitting method thereof

• US 20060114940A1
• Filed: 11/23/2005
• Published: 06/01/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Chun-Soo, Cho, Sung-Woo
• Application Number:
  US11/285,293
• Publication Number:
  US 20060114940A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/498
• CPC Class Codes: G01D 21/00 Measuring or testing not otherwise provided for
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0219 where the power saving management affects multiple terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 72/0446 Resources in time domain, e.g. slots or frames
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/04 Scheduled access hybrid access H04W74/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Disclosed are a sensor network for transmitting data and a data transmitting method thereof. The sensor network includes one or more sensor nodes for collecting target data and transmitting the collected target data at an allocated sub-time slot among sub-time slots constituting each time slot corresponding to the collected target data, and a gathering node for allocating for the sensor nodes a sub-time slot for each of the time slots, and receiving the collected target data transmitted by the sensor nodes. Data transmission by bits reduces power consumption and does not require additional information transmission to prevent data collision. Therefore, power consumption is minimized and a plurality of sensor nodes possibly transmit data at one time, accordingly shortening transmission time.

Claims

1. A sensor network comprising:

one or more sensor nodes that collect target data and transmit the collected target data at an allocated sub-time slot among sub-time slots constituting each time slot corresponding to the collected target data; and

a gathering node that allocates the sensor nodes with the sub-time slot for each of the time slots, and receives the collected target data transmitted by the sensor nodes.

2. The sensor network of claim 1, wherein collectable target data are divided into not less than two groups by the time slot and the time slot comprises a plurality of sub-time slots corresponding to the divided groups.

3. The sensor network of claim 1, wherein the gathering node is one of the sensor nodes, and has a higher position than other sensor nodes.

4. The sensor network of claim 1, wherein the gathering node classifies the data into not less than two groups, and collects data with lower value than the groups as a low data group, and collecting data with higher value than the groups as a high data group.

5. The sensor network of claim 1, wherein the sensor nodes are placed within 1-hop distance from the gathering node.

6. The sensor network of claim 1, wherein the gathering node allows a predetermined error to the sub-time slot.

7. The sensor network of 6, wherein the gathering node corrects the error by widening intervals of the sub-time slot.

8. A data transmitting method of a sensor network which includes a sensor node for transmitting collected target data and a gathering node for receiving the data transmitted by the sensor node, the data transmitting method comprising:

transmitting, from the sensor node, the collected target data at a sub-time slot allocated among sub-time slots constituting each time slot corresponding to the collected target data; and

allocating the sub-time slot to the sensor node for each time slot and receiving, at the gathering node, the collected target data transmitted by the sensor node.

9. The data transmitting method of claim 8, further comprising:

classifying the collectable target data into at least two groups; and

dividing each of the time slots into a plurality of sub-time slots corresponding to the classified groups.

10. The data transmitting method of claim 8, wherein the gathering node is one of the sensor nodes and has a higher position than other sensor nodes.

11. The data transmitting method of claim 8, wherein the data is classified into at least two groups and data collected with a value lower than the groups is collected into a low data group, and data collected with a value higher than the groups is collected to a high data group.

12. The data transmitting method of claim 8, wherein the sensor node is placed within 1-hop distance from the gathering node.

13. The data transmitting method of claim 8, wherein a predetermined error is allowed at the sub-time slot.

14. The data transmitting method of claim 13, wherein the error is corrected by widening intervals of the sub-time slot.