Highly-Efficient Bulk Data Transfer for Structured Dissemination in Wireless Embedded Network Systems

Zhiwei, Zhao, Zi, Wang, Geyong, Min and Cao, Yue (2017) Highly-Efficient Bulk Data Transfer for Structured Dissemination in Wireless Embedded Network Systems. Journal of Systems Architecture, 72. pp. 19-28. ISSN 1383-7621

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sysarc.2016.09.001

Abstract

Recent years have witnessed the remarkable development of wireless embedded network systems (WENS) such as cyber-physical systems and sensor networks. Reliable bulk data dissemination is an important building module in WENS, supporting various applications, e.g., remote software update, video distribution. The existing studies often construct network structures to enable time-slotted multi hop pipelining for data dissemination. However, the adopted transmission mechanism was originally designed for structureless protocols, and thus posing significant challenges on efficient structured data dissemination. In this paper, we investigate the problem of structured bulk data dissemination. Specifically, we propose reliable out-of-order transmission and bursty encoding mechanisms to transmit packets as many as possible in each transmission slot. As a consequence, the resulting transmission protocol (ULTRA) can fully utilize each transmission slot and propagate data in the network as fast as possible. The performance results obtained from both testbed and simulation experiments demonstrate that, compared to the state-of-the-art protocols, ULTRA can greatly enhance the dissemination performance by reducing the dissemination delay by 34.8%.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: wireless embedded network systems, bulk data dissemination, structured protocol, transmission mechanism
Subjects: G400 Computer Science
H600 Electronic and Electrical Engineering
Department: Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User: Yue Cao
Date Deposited: 05 Oct 2016 10:36
Last Modified: 01 Aug 2021 08:31
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/27926

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