Why Should Multicast be used in WSNs

Authors

Ricardo Mendão Silva
Jorge Sá Silva
Milan Simek
Fernando Boavida

Abstract

Wireless Sensor Networks present a great potential in monitoring systems. A vast scope of applications can take
advantage of WSNs and, mainly because of their own nature, the aggregation of WSN nodes into groups provides more potential solutions when compared with traditional monitoring systems.
This paper introduces the issue of multicast messages and their impact on battery resources of WSNs. It presents a study based on a real implementation to evaluate the energy consumed by each node when a multicast or unicast is used. A study of the multicast impact in the neighbourhood is also presented in this paper.

Subject

Multicast in Wireless Sensor Networks

Conference

IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems 2008, October 2008

Cited by

Year 2015 : 1 citations

Andreas Reinhardt, Christian Renner, “RoCoCo: Receiver-Initiated Opportunistic Data Collection and Command Multicasting for WSNs”, Proceedings of EWSN 2015 - 12th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, Springer LNCS, Vol. 8965, pp 218-233, Porto, Portugal, February 9-11, 2015. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-15582-1_14.