LIPS: A Protocol Suite for Homeostatic Sensornet Management

Abstract

Sensornets are often deployed into inaccessible, dangerous, or changeable physical environments. Centralised control and management is generally infeasible. Autonomous, self-configuring, and self-managing mechanisms are required to provide a suitable infrastructure which reliably supports distributed applications, hiding any underlying instability. The Lightweight Integrated Protocol Suite (LIPS) coordinates time-sensitive activity, and regulates network size and density, in self-managing cellular sensornets. Although components can be implemented in isolation, each contributes part of a larger, integrated solution.