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http://dx.doi.org/10.12989/sss.2010.6.5_6.481

Reliable multi-hop communication for structural health monitoring  

Nagayama, Tomonori (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
Moinzadeh, Parya (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Mechitov, Kirill (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Ushita, Mitsushi (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
Makihata, Noritoshi (JIP Techno Science Corporation)
Ieiri, Masataka (JIP Techno Science Corporation)
Agha, Gul (Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Spencer, Billie F. Jr. (Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Fujino, Yozo (Department of Civil Engineering, University of Tokyo)
Seo, Ju-Won (Long Span Bridge Research Team, Hyundai Instititue of Construction Technology)
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Smart Structures and Systems / v.6, no.5_6, 2010 , pp. 481-504 More about this Journal
Abstract
Wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) have been proposed by a number of researchers to evaluate the current condition of civil infrastructure, offering improved understanding of dynamic response through dense instrumentation. As focus moves from laboratory testing to full-scale implementation, the need for multi-hop communication to address issues associated with the large size of civil infrastructure and their limited radio power has become apparent. Multi-hop communication protocols allow sensors to cooperate to reliably deliver data between nodes outside of direct communication range. However, application specific requirements, such as high sampling rates, vast amounts of data to be collected, precise internodal synchronization, and reliable communication, are quite challenging to achieve with generic multi-hop communication protocols. This paper proposes two complementary reliable multi-hop communication solutions for monitoring of civil infrastructure. In the first approach, termed herein General Purpose Multi-hop (GPMH), the wide variety of communication patterns involved in structural health monitoring, particularly in decentralized implementations, are acknowledged to develop a flexible and adaptable any-to-any communication protocol. In the second approach, termed herein Single-Sink Multi-hop (SSMH), an efficient many-to-one protocol utilizing all available RF channels is designed to minimize the time required to collect the large amounts of data generated by dense arrays of sensor nodes. Both protocols adopt the Ad-hoc On-demand Distance Vector (AODV) routing protocol, which provides any-to-any routing and multi-cast capability, and supports a broad range of communication patterns. The proposed implementations refine the routing metric by considering the stability of links, exclude functionality unnecessary in mostly-static WSSNs, and integrate a reliable communication layer with the AODV protocol. These customizations have resulted in robust realizations of multi-hop reliable communication that meet the demands of structural health monitoring.
Keywords
wireless smart sensors; multi-hop communication; structural health monitoring; reliability; dense instrumentation;
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