DFG FOR 1508 BATS - Dynamically Adaptable Positioning of Bats Using Embedded Communicating Sensor Systems

TP4: E2SO - Energy Efficient Management and Self-organized Operation in Sensor Networks

Institutions

• Paderborn University
• FAU Erlangen
• Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
• TU Braunschweig

Team @ CCS

• Prof. Dr. Falko Dressler (PI)
• Muhammad Nabeel
• Johannes Blobel
• Bastian Bloessl

Funding

• DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

Project Time

• 12/2012-12/2015 (1. Phase)
• 01/2016-11/2019 (2. Phase)

Homepage

• http://www.for-bats.de/

Description

1. Phase

In the scope of the DFG research group BATS, the project E²SO focuses on challenges related to the efficient communication with integrated self-organizing data management in highly dynamic sensor networks. The communication primitives to be developed primarily target the operation with limited energy and other systems resources. In particular, three aspects will be investigated in this research project: First, the sensor nodes developed in BATS will be extremely challenging in terms of energy (the system design expects a node weighting of 2g including the battery). Therefore, new communication techniques are needed for connecting the mobile nodes to the stationary ground network. Our partners from electrical engineering are about to develop mobile sensor nodes as well as the ground network systems. Besides of the limited computing and storage resources, the limited connectivity of the mobile bats constitutes new challenges that can only be investigated in this interdisciplinary team of researchers. A second focus is on the temporal storage of dynamically generated information and on the efficient access to these data. The concept is to use DHT concepts for maintaining measurement data that will be processed in the network relying on data stream processing techniques to finally be used for answering questions in the field of biological behavioral research. The third research aspect of the E²SO project is to provide continuous resource and topology monitoring in order to extend the network lifetime as a key metric describing the overall system performance and to early detect bottlenecks that can be mitigated using online reconfigurations of the data streams.

2. Phase

The overall objective of the project E²SO (Energy Efficient Management and Self-organized Operation in Sensor Networks) is to research wireless communication protocol options between the mobile nodes and to improve the reliability of the entire communication system while maintaining the already tight energy budget. All the investigations will be directly based on the research results from the first funding period in order to seamlessly integrate expected results into the developed system architecture. The dominating objective is still to provide efficient, i.e., energy and resource optimized communication in very dynamic heterogeneous sensor networks. The research goals of the second funding period can be categorized as follows. First, the communication among the mobile nodes needs to be designed keeping the energy budget and the hardware constraints into account. It is planned to further develop the wake-up system in order to exchange node IDs as well as complete encounter information. For this, the signal sent from the ground station and that from another mobile node must be distinguished. In the best way, the node ID can already be encoded in the wake-up signal. In order to achieve this, novel concepts for adaptive protocol management have to be developed. Secondly, the robustness and reliability of the entire communication system needs to be improved without increasing the energy consumption. One approach is to exploit the spatial diversity of the radio signals from the mobile nodes that are received by multiple ground stations simultaneously. The combination of these signals may substantially improve the communication reliability. The aim is to use the ground network as a distributed and dynamic multi antenna system that needs to be configured and maintained in a self-organizing manner. Finally, scalability and usability of the system is to be addressed, particularly for the other computer science projects as well as for supporting the dynamic adaptation of experiment parameters by the biologists. Novel concepts in protocol design will be researched to further extend the wake-up system to also communicate parameter changes (a few byte) to the mobile nodes even during the bat flight as well as to support complete software updates (a few kilobyte) at their home station. Coding algorithms are considered to provide the required robustness of the update procedure.

Selected Publications

2020

Journals and Magazines

1. Muhammad Nabeel and Falko Dressler, "Experimental Evaluation of Receive Diversity Techniques in Distributed Sensor Networks," Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 99, pp. 102066, March 2020. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2019

Journals and Magazines

1. Muhammad Nabeel and Falko Dressler, "Turning Sensor Networks into Distributed Antenna Arrays for Improved Communication Performance," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 57 (9), pp. 100–105, September 2019. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

Conferences and Workshops

1. Muhammad Nabeel, Vishal Kumar Singh and Falko Dressler, "Efficient Data Gathering for Decentralized Diversity Combining in Heterogeneous Sensor Networks," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2019), Marrakesh, Morocco, April 2019. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Falko Dressler, Margit Mutschlechner, Muhammad Nabeel and Johannes Blobel, "Ultra Low-Power Sensor Networks for Next Generation Wildlife Monitoring," Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS 2019), Bengaluru, India, January 2019. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

Technical Reports and Regional Workshops

1. Simon P. Ripperger, Gerald G. Carter, Rachel A. Page, Niklas Duda, Alexander Koelpin, Robert Weigel, Markus Hartmann, Thorsten Nowak, Joern Thielecke, Michael Schadhauser, Joerg Robert, Sebastian Herbst, Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Peter Waegemann, Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat, Bjoern Cassens, Ruediger Kapitza, Falko Dressler and Frieder Mayer, "Thinking small: next-generation sensor networks close the size gap in vertebrate biologging," bioRxiv, Preprint, 767749, September 2019. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2018

Journals and Magazines

1. Niklas Duda, Thorsten Nowak, Markus Hartmann, Michael Schadhauser, Björn Cassens, Peter Wägemann, Muhammad Nabeel, Simon P. Ripperger, Sebastian Herbst, Klaus Meyer-Wegener, Frieder Mayer, Falko Dressler, Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, Rüdiger Kapitza, Jörg Robert, Jörn Thielecke, Robert Weigel and Alexander Kölpin, "BATS: Adaptive Ultra Low Power Sensor Network for Animal Tracking," Sensors, vol. 18 (10), pp. 3342–35, October 2018. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "mSync: Physical Layer Frame Synchronization Without Preamble Symbols," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17 (10), pp. 2321–2333, October 2018. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
3. Muhammad Nabeel, Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "Efficient Receive Diversity in Distributed Sensor Networks using Selective Sample Forwarding," IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 2 (2), pp. 336–345, June 2018. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

Conferences and Workshops

1. Muhammad Nabeel, Muhammad Sohaib Amjad and Falko Dressler, "Preamble-Less Diversity Combining: Improved Energy-Efficiency in Sensor Networks," Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, December 2018. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2017

Conferences and Workshops

1. Muhammad Nabeel, Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "Selective Signal Sample Forwarding for Receive Diversity in Energy-Constrained Sensor Networks," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017), Paris, France, May 2017. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Johannes Blobel and Falko Dressler, "Sender-Triggered Selective Wake-Up Receiver for Low-Power Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 36th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2017), Demo Session, Atlanta, GA, May 2017. Best Demo Award [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
3. Muhammad Nabeel, Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "Low-Complexity Soft-Bit Diversity Combining for Ultra-Low Power Wildlife Monitoring," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2017), San Francisco, CA, March 2017. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2016

Journals and Magazines

1. Falko Dressler, Margit Mutschlechner, Bijun Li, Rüdiger Kapitza, Simon P. Ripperger, Christopher Eibel, Benedict Herzog, Timo Hönig and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat, "Monitoring Bats in the Wild: On Using Erasure Codes for Energy-Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks," ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 12 (1), February 2016. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Falko Dressler, Simon P. Ripperger, Martin Hierold, Thorsten Nowak, Christopher Eibel, Björn Cassens, Frieder Mayer, Klaus Meyer-Wegener and Alexander Koelpin, "From Radio Telemetry to Ultra-Low-Power Sensor Networks: Tracking Bats in the Wild," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54 (1), pp. 129–135, January 2016. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

Conferences and Workshops

1. Johannes Blobel, Jannis Krasemann and Falko Dressler, "An Architecture for Sender-based Addressing for Selective Sensor Network Wake-Up Receivers," Proceedings of 17th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2016), Coimbra, Portugal, June 2016. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Johannes Blobel, Christoph Sommer and Falko Dressler, "Protocol Options for Low Power Sensor Network MAC using Wake-up Receivers with Duty Cycling," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016, pp. 3925–3930. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
3. Muhammad Nabeel, Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "On Using BOC Modulation in Ultra-Low Power Sensor Networks for Wildlife Tracking," Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2016), Doha, Qatar, April 2016, pp. 848–853. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2015

Conferences and Workshops

1. Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "mSync in Action," Proceedings of 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2015), 7th Wireless of the Students, by the Students, for the Students Workshop (S3 2015), Demo Session, Paris, France, September 2015, pp. 24–24. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Bastian Bloessl and Falko Dressler, "mSync - Frames without Preambles," Proceedings of 21st ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2015), 4th ACM Software Radio Implementation Forum (SRIF 2015), Poster Session, Paris, France, September 2015, pp. 11–11. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
3. Falko Dressler, Bastian Bloessl, Martin Hierold, Chia-Yu Hsieh, Thorsten Nowak, Robert Weigel and Alexander Koelpin, "Protocol Design for Ultra-Low Power Wake-Up Systems for Tracking Bats in the Wild," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), London, United Kingdom, June 2015, pp. 6345–6350. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
4. Thorsten Nowak, Alexander Koelpin, Falko Dressler, Markus Hartmann, Lucila Patino and Jörn Thielecke, "Combined Localization and Data Transmission in Energy-Constrained Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of IEEE Radio Wireless Week (RWW 2015), IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet 2015), San Diego, CA, January 2015, pp. 4–6. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2014

Conferences and Workshops

1. Margit Mutschlechner, Florian Klingler, Felix Erlacher, Florian Hagenauer, Marcel Kiessling and Falko Dressler, "Reliable Communication using Erasure Codes for Monitoring Bats in the Wild," Proceedings of 33rd IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2014), Poster Session, Toronto, Canada, April 2014, pp. 189–190. Best Student Poster Award [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]
2. Margit Mutschlechner, Bijun Li, Rüdiger Kapitza and Falko Dressler, "Using Erasure Codes to Overcome Reliability Issues in Energy-Constrained Sensor Networks," Proceedings of 11th IEEE/IFIP Conference on Wireless On demand Network Systems and Services (WONS 2014), Obergurgl, Austria, April 2014, pp. 41–48. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

2013

Conferences and Workshops

1. Bijun Li, Margit Mutschlechner, Rüdiger Kapitza and Falko Dressler, "Improving Transmission Reliability in Sensor Networks for Energy-Constrained Wildlife Monitoring," Proceedings of 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Diversity Workshop, Poster Session, Poster Session, Farmington, PA, November 2013. [BibTeX, More details]
2. Dominik Neuner, Margit Mutschlechner and Falko Dressler, "Energy-Efficient Status Monitoring in Sensor Networks Using Adaptive Piggybacking," Proceedings of 38th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2013), Demo Session, Sydney, Australia, October 2013. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]
3. Falko Dressler and Dominik Neuner, "Energy-efficient monitoring of distributed system resources for self-organizing sensor networks," Proceedings of IEEE Radio Wireless Week (RWW 2013), IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet 2013), Austin, TX, January 2013, pp. 145–147. [DOI, BibTeX, PDF, More details]

Technical Reports and Regional Workshops

1. Margit Mutschlechner, Patrick Baldemaier, Philipp Handle and Falko Dressler, "Wireless in The Woods: Experimental Evaluation of IEEE 802.11a/b/g in Forested Environments," Proceedings of 12. GI/ITG KuVS Fachgespräch Drahtlose Sensornetze (FGSN 2013), Cottbus, Germany, September 2013, pp. 5–8. [BibTeX, PDF, More details]