%0 Journal Article
%T Evaluation of a Heterogeneous Sensor Network Architecture for Highly Mobile Users
%A Chen Zhong
%A Jens Eliasson
%A Rumen Kyusakov
%A Jerker Delsing
%J Communications and Network
%P 57-64
%@ 1947-3826
%D 2011
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/cn.2011.32008
%X This paper presents experimental results of a heterogeneous sensor network architecture, which is a combination of a wireless sensor network and a personal area network. The proposed architecture uses the IEEE 802.15.4 standard to transmit sensor data to a sensor node which in turn forwards the data using TCP/IP to a database on the Internet via a Bluetooth-equipped mobile phone and the mobile telephone access network. The performance of the entire communication chain is evaluated. First, a 3G network's performance is evaluated by measuring its round trip time for packet transmission. Second, the real-world end-to-end delay between a sensor node and a database server on the Internet is measured using two different experimental set-ups: single-hop transmission and two hops transmission. Finally, the proposed architecture's scalability is estimated in a Matlab simulation using the results of the experiments as a base. The results show that the proposed architecture is applicable for small-scale sensor networks used by highly mobile users.
%K Wsn
%K PAN
%K Mobile Sensor Network
%K Scalability
%K Experimental
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=4969