WSN Implementation of the Average Consensus Algorithm
Conference: European Wireless 2011 - Sustainable Wireless Technologies
04/27/2011 - 04/29/2011 at Vienna, Austria
Proceedings: European Wireless 2011
Pages: 8Language: englishTyp: PDF
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Authors:
Kenyeres, Jozef; Rupp, Markus (Vienna University of Technology, Institute of Telecommunications, Vienna, Austria)
Kenyeres, Jozef; Kenyeres, Martin; Farkas, Peter (Slovak University of Technology, Department of Telecommunications, Bratislava, Slovakia)
Abstract:
This paper is motivated by the lack of distributed algorithm implementations on wireless sensor networks (WSN) in hardware. We deal exemplary with the implementation of the well-known average consensus algorithm. By formulating the algorithm into nesC, a C derivative, it is possible to enrich the knowledge of the algorithm with practical information, specific to embedded devices such as nodes. We created a simple mechanism of a time scheduled access to share the wireless channel among the nodes and guarantee a collision free environment, in which our implementation is tested. Our achieved results are consistent with theory.