areas such as home, health, and robot. Sensor nodes are scattered
1. Introduction
Recent advancement in wireless communications and
electronics has enabled the development of low-cost,
low-power, multifunctional sensor nodes that are small in size
and communicate with each other in short distances. These
tiny sensor nodes, which consist of sensing, data processing,
and communicating components, leverage the idea of wireless
sensor networks. Wireless sensor networks represent a
significant improvement over traditional sensors[1]. Such
wireless sensor networks are applicable to the areas of home,
health, and robot. In health, for example, sensor nodes can be
deployed to monitor patients and assist disabled patients.
Sensor nodes are scattered densely in a field either close to or
inside the phenomenon. Therefore, special multihop wireless
routing protocols between the sensor nodes and the sink node
are needed. Furthermore, wireless sensor network routing
protocols are influenced by many challenging factors in terms
of energy, processing, and storage capacities.
We developed sensor network routing system based on
Nano-Qplus platform[2]. The Nano-Qplus platform is
composed of nano HAL for abstracting the hardware part,
sensing and actuating, task management, power management,
and message handling module. In addition, the Nano-Qplus
platform includes ATmegal28 MCU[3] and cc2420 [4]
IEEE8O2. 15.4[5] RF communication module. Based on the
Nano-Qplus platform, we developed energy efficient
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disjoint paths
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can be increased through transmitting data across multiple
paths
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6. Conclusion
We developed our sensor network routing system on the
Nano-Qplus platform. Our routing system supports
energy-aware multipath routing for energy efficiency and
resilient data transmission. In future, we will improve our
routing system based on the Nano-Qplus platform, evaluate
the performance of the system.
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