Mobility-Assisted Resolution of Queries in Large-Scale Mobile Sensor Networks (MARQ)

Abstract

One of the most crucial aspects of the design of sensor networks is provisioning of e#cient query resolution and resource discovery. In many cases sensor networks are expected to be large-scale, and in some cases these sensors maybe installed on moving objects, rendering the query resolution problem even more challenging. Flooding techniques, including global flooding or expanding ring search techniques, may be very ine#cient in large-scale networks, especially in wireless (spatial) networks where the diameter of the network tends to be quite high. More so is the case when queries are one-shot and frequent