Finding routes in anonymous sensor networks

TL;DR

This paper presents a distributed routing algorithm for anonymous sensor networks that uses power level information to construct routes, demonstrated through simulation results.

Contribution

It introduces a novel routing method leveraging power levels to overcome anonymity restrictions in sensor networks.

Findings

The algorithm successfully constructs routes in anonymous sensor networks.

Simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

Abstract

We consider networks of anonymous sensors and address the problem of constructing routes for the delivery of information from a group of sensors in response to a query by a sink. In order to circumvent the restrictions imposed by anonymity, we rely on using the power level perceived by the sensors in the query from the sink. We introduce a simple distributed algorithm to achieve the building of routes to the sink and evaluate its performance by means of simulations.