IP Library Granted Patent US 8,406,174
Granted Patent B2
US 8,406,174 · App. 12/694,583 · Granted Mar 26, 2013

Method for pruning perimeter walks in data-centric storage sensor networks

Inventors: Young Hee Lee (Daejeon, KR); Xuan Tung Hoang (Daejeon, KR); Dohyun Kim (Daejeon, KR)
Assignee: Lorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
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Patent No.
US 8,406,174
App. No.
12/694,583
Granted
Mar 26, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method for pruning perimeter walks includes: hashing a name or attributes of an event, when the event occurs, to figure out a destination location of the event; performing greedy forwarding of geographic routing so as to send a packet of the event towards the destination location; checking a distance D between the destination location and a current node where a packet transmission using greedy forwarding mode is impossible, when the packet reaches the current node; checking distances between the destination location and respective neighboring nodes of the current node to obtain a neighboring node having a minimum distance M, when the distance D between the current node and the destination location is same or less than half of radio transmission range; comparing the minimum distance M to the distance D; and determining which node is a rendezvous node, according to the comparison result.

Claims (14)

1. A method for pruning perimeter walks, comprising:

hashing a name or attributes of an event, when the event occurs, to figure out a destination location of the event;

performing, by a geographic routing unit, greedy forwarding of geographic routing so as to send a packet of the event towards the destination location;

checking a distance D between the destination location and a current node where a packet transmission using greedy forwarding mode is impossible, when the packet reaches the current node;

checking distances between the destination location and respective neighboring nodes of the current node to obtain a neighboring node having a minimum distance M, when the distance D between the current node and the destination location is same or less than half of radio transmission range;

comparing the minimum distance M to the distance D; and

determining which node is a rendezvous node, according to the comparison result.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

performing perimeter forwarding, when the distance D between the current node and the destination location is bigger than half of the radio transmission range.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the perimeter forwarding is switched to the greedy forwarding, when the packet reaches a node which is closer to the destination location than the current node.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein as the comparison result, if minimum distance M is bigger than the distance D, the current node is determined as the rendezvous node and the geographic routing ends.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein as the comparison result, if minimum distance M is less than the distance D, the packet is delivered to the neighboring node having the minimum distance M.

6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the neighboring node having the minimum distance M is determined as the rendezvous node and the geographic routing ends.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the current node, where the packet transmission using greedy forwarding mode is impossible, indicates a node having no neighbors in the radio transmission range.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 27, 2010
From: LEE, YOUNG HEE; HOANG, XUAN TUNG; KIM, DOHYUN
To: KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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Continuity (1)
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