Tenet: An Architecture for Tiered Embedded Networks

Abstract

The hardest problem facing sensor networking today is the design and implementation of complex routing structures and application semantics for collaborative in-network processing on motes. Researchers have not been able to develop general purpose routing techniques that support collaborative processing, and have turned to routing structures that embody application semantics. This slows the proliferation of sensor networks, since it destroys modularity, reusability, and manageability at the lower layers. The Tenet project is developing an alternative architecture for tiered wireless sensor networks which contain both small form factor motes and Stargate class masters.