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Wireless Sensor Networks:

Introduction, Advantages,
Applications and Research
Challenges
Prashant Tiwari1, Varun Prakash Saxena2, Raj Gaurav Mishra3,
Devendra Bhavsar4
[email protected]

Abstract

This paper presents introduction, advantages and disadvantages, possible

applications and research challenges of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN).

Keywords
WSN, Self-Positioning Algorithm, Localization Algorithm

Introduction to Wireless Networks

A wireless network is any sort of computer network that uses wireless data connections to
plug network nodes. Wireless networks are computer networks who are not connected by
cables regardless of the sort. The use of a wireless network enables enterprises to
prevent the costly means of introducing cables into buildings or as a connection between
different equipment locations. The cornerstone of wireless systems is radio waves, an
implementation that occurs at the physical higher level of network structure.

Wireless technologies differ in a number of dimensions, most notably in just how much
bandwidth they provide and how far apart communicating nodes can be. Other important
differences include which perhaps the electromagnetic spectrums they choose (including
whether or not this has a license) and exactly how much power them consume (very
important to mobile nodes). In this section we discuss four prominent wireless
technologies: Bluetooth (802.15.1), Wi-Fi (more formally generally known as 802.11), Wi-
MAX (802.16), and third-generation or 3G cellular wireless. In the following sections we
present them as a way from shortest range to longest range. Table 2.1 gives an
introduction to these technologies and the way they connect with one another [1].

1
M.Tech Scholar, Central University of Jharkhand, India.
2
Assistant Professor, Govt. Women Engineering College, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
3
Faculty Member, FST, The ICFAI University, Dehradun, India.
4
Assistant Professor, J.K. Lakshmipati University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.

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One of the most traditionally used wireless links today are usually asymmetric, i.e., both
endpoints are usually kinds of nodes. One endpoint, sometimes termed the base-station,
normally has no mobility, but has a wired (or at best high bandwidth) link to the internet or
other networks as shown in Figure 1. The node in the opposite end from the link shown
because a “client node” can often be mobile and utilizes its link to the base station for
those its communication with other nodes [2].

Types of Wireless Networks

Basically, there are five types of wireless networks:

1. Wireless PAN
2. Wireless LAN
3. Wireless MAN
4. Wireless WAN
5. Global Area Network [1]

Ad-hoc Networks

An advert hoc network is usually a network that is certainly composed of individual

devices communicating jointly directly. The idea of implies spontaneous or impromptu
construction because networks often bypass the gate keeping hardware or central access
point for example a router. Many random networks are neighborhood networks where
computers or other products are enabled to send data on to each other rather than
dealing with a centralized access point [3].
Ad-hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks that can operate minus the services of
the established backbone infrastructure. While such networks have obvious applications
from the military and disaster relief environments, more modern works that contain
motivated their use even in regular wireless packet data networks have raised their
significance. The main objective on this paper should be to study the performance with
the TCP transport layer protocol over ad-hoc networks [4].
Thinking about an ad hoc network is normally unfamiliar to finish users with only seen
small residential or business networks that use a standard router to send wireless signals
to individual computers. However, the ad hoc network will be used a great deal in new
sorts of wireless engineering, although until recently it turned out a rather esoteric idea.
One example is a mobile random network involves mobile devices communicating directly
with each other. A different type of random network, the vehicular random network,
involves placing communication devices in cars. Both these are examples of ad hoc
networks designed to use a large variety of individual devices to freely communicate with
no sort of top-down or hierarchical communication structure [3].

Ad-hoc Networks Characteristics

1. Mobility: the truth that nodes can be rapidly repositioned and/or move could be the
raison d ‘etre of random networks. Rapid deployment in areas without the need of
infrastructure often means that a gamers must explore a place along with perhaps
form teams/swarms that in turn coordinate among themselves to generate a
taskforce or a mission. You can have individual random mobility, group mobility,

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motion along preplanned routes, etc. The mobility model might have major effect
on the selection of a routing scheme and can thus influence performance.

2. Multihopping: a multihop network is a network the spot that the path from source
to destination traverses other nodes. Random nets often exhibit multiple hops for
obstacle negotiation, spectrum reuse, and conservation. Battlefield covert
operations also favour a sequence of short hops to scale back detection by the
enemy.

3. Self-organization: the ad hoc network must autonomously determine its very own
configuration parameters including: addressing, routing, clustering, position
identification, power control, etc. Sometimes, special nodes (e.g., mobile
backbone nodes) can coordinate their motion and dynamically distribute from the
geographic area to supply coverage of disconnected islands.

4. Energy conservation: most ad hoc nodes (e.g., laptops, PDAs, sensors, etc.) have
limited power supply no power to generate their particular power (e.g., solar
power systems). High efficiency protocol design (e.g., MAC, routing, resource
discovery, etc) is important for longevity with the mission.

5. Scalability: in certain applications (e.g., large environmental sensor fabrics,

battlefield deployments, urban vehicle grids, etc) the random network can grow to
thousand nodes. For wireless “infrastructure” networks scalability is actually
handled by a hierarchical construction [3].

Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) have cultivated out of the have to support the
growing quantity of wireless items that very easily employed in the vehicles. These
products include remote keyless entry devices, personal digital assistants (PDAs), laptops
and mobile telephones. As mobile wireless devices and networks become increasingly
important, the need for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and Vehicle to-Roadside (VRC) or
Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Communication will continue to develop. VANETs can be
utilized to get a broad range of safety and non-safety applications, leave useful services
like vehicle safety, automated toll payment, traffic management, enhanced navigation,
location-based services for example choosing the closest fuel station, restaurant or travel
lodge and infotainment applications including providing access to the online world [6].

Fixed Wireless Networks

Fixed wireless will be the operation of wireless devices or systems accustomed to
connect two fixed locations (e.g., building to building or tower to building) using a radio or
other wireless link, like laser bridge Usually, fixed wireless is part of a wireless LAN
infrastructure. The objective of a limited wireless link would be to enable data
communications between the two sites or buildings. Fixed wireless data (FWD) links will
often be a price-effective alternative to popular leasing fiber or installing cables between
your buildings.

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The idea-to-point signal transmissions occur throughout the air over the terrestrial
microwave platform rather than through copper or optical fiber therefore, fixed wireless
does not require satellite feeds or local phone service. Some great benefits of fixed
wireless add the ability to connect with users in remote areas with the necessity for laying
new cables and also the capacity for broad bandwidth that isn't impeded by fiber or cable
capacities. Fixed wireless devices usually derives their electrical energy from the public-
service corporation mains, unlike mobile wireless or portable wireless devices which are
generally battery powered [7].

Wireless Sensor Networks

A Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is by hundreds of small, low-cost nodes that are fitted
with limitations in memory, energy, and processing capacity. In this particular form of
networks, several problems is to learn each node. Recent advances in wireless
communications and electronics have enabled the roll-out of low-cost, low-power and
multi-functional sensors that are small in dimensions and communicate in a nutshell
distances. Cheap, smart sensors, networked through wireless links and deployed in vast
quantities, provide unprecedented opportunities for monitoring and controlling homes,
cities, along with the environment. Furthermore, networked sensors use a broad spectrum
of applications within the defense area, generating new capabilities for reconnaissance
and surveillance and various Tactical applications. Self-localization capability can be a
highly desirable sign of wireless sensor networks. In environmental monitoring
applications for example bush fire surveillance, water quality monitoring and precision
agriculture, the measurement data are meaningless lacking the knowledge of the
placement from the location where the data are obtained. Moreover, location estimation
may enable many applications for example inventory management, transport, intrusion
detection, road traffic monitoring, health monitoring, reconnaissance and surveillance.

With all the advances inside the miniaturization and integration of sensing and
communication Technologies, large-scale wireless sensor networks using a large number
of low-cost and low-power sensors are already developed. Within a wireless sensor
network, lots of money of tiny, battery-powered sensor nodes are scattered throughout a
physical area. Each sensor in the sensor network collects data, as an example, sensing
vibration, temperature, radiation along with other environmental factors [5].

A wireless sensor network (WSN) includes hundreds to a large number of low-power

multi-functional sensor nodes, operating within the unattended environment, and having
sensing, computation and communication capabilities. The essential the different parts of
a node undoubtedly are a sensor unit, an ADC (Analog to Digital Converter), a CPU
(C.P.U.), an electrical unit as well as a communication unit. Sensor nodes are micro-
electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) that develop a measurable a reaction to a general
change in some fitness like temperature and pressure. Sensor nodes sense or measure
physical data in the area being monitored. The continual analog signal sensed through
the sensors is digitized by an analog-to-digital converter and sent to controllers for more
processing. Sensor nodes are of small size, consume extremely low energy, are operated
in high volumetric densities, and will be autonomous and adaptive towards the
environment.

Wireless sensor networks are particularly interesting in hazardous or remote

environments, or every time a multitude of sensor nodes have to be deployed. The
localization concern is important where it has an uncertainty about some positioning.

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Should the sensor network is used for monitoring the temperature within a building, it's
quite possible that we can are aware of the exact position of node. However, in the event
the sensor network is utilized for monitoring the temperature inside a remote forest, nodes
can be deployed from an airplane as well as the precise location coming from all sensor
might be unknown. An effective localization algorithm may then make use of all the
disposable information through the motes to compute each of the positions [8].

The key characteristic of any Wireless Sensor Network includes:

1. Power consumption constraints for nodes using batteries or energy harvesting

2. Chance to cope with node failures (resilience)
3. Mobility of nodes
4. Heterogeneity of nodes
5. Scalability to large scale of deployment
6. Capability to withstand harsh environmental conditions
7. Simplicity of use
8. Cross layer design [8]

Advantages and Disadvantages of WSN

Why people love wireless sensor networks might be summarized as the following [9]:

1. Network setups can be carried out without fixed infrastructure.

2. Suitable for the non-reachable places such as over the sea, mountains, rural
areas or deep forests.
3. Flexible if there is random situation when additional workstation is needed.
4. Implementation pricing is cheap.
5. It avoids plenty of wiring.
6. It might accommodate new devices at any time.
7. It's flexible to undergo physical partitions.
8. It can be accessed by using a centralized monitor.

The disadvantages of wireless sensor networks can be summarized as follows [9]:

1. Less secure because hackers can enter the access point and obtain all the
information.
2. Lower speed as compared to a wired network.
3. More complicated to configure compared to a wired network.
4. Easily troubled by surroundings (walls, microwave, large distances due to signal
attenuation, etc).
5. It is easy for hackers to hack it we couldn’t control propagation of waves.
6. Comparatively low speed of communication.
7. Gets distracted by various elements like Blue-tooth.
8. Still Costly (most importantly).

Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks

The applications for WSNs involve tracking, monitoring and controlling. WSNs are mainly
utilized for habitat monitoring, object tracking, nuclear reactor control, fire detection, and
traffic monitoring. Area monitoring is a very common application of WSNs, in which the
WSN is deployed over a region where some incident might be monitored. E.g., a
substantial variety of sensor nodes may very well be deployed over the battlefield to
detect enemy intrusions rather than using landmines. When the sensors detect case

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being monitored (heat, pressure, sound, light, electro-magnetic flux, vibration, etc.), the
big event needs to be reported to at least one in the base stations, which often can than
take some appropriate action (e.g., send some text online or even a satellite). Wireless
sensor networks are utilized extensively within the water/wastewater industries. Facilities
not wired for power or data transmission can be monitored using industrial wireless I/O
devices and sensor nodes powered by solar panels or battery packs. Wireless sensor
networks are able to use numerous sensors to detect the existence of vehicles for
vehicles detection. Wireless sensor networks may also be employed to control the
temperature and humidity levels inside commercial greenhouses. If the temperature and
humidity drops below specific levels, the greenhouse manager might be notified via e-mail
or a cellular telephone text, or host systems can trigger misting systems, open vents, first
turn on fans, or control a multitude of system responses. Because some wireless sensor
networks are super easy to install, they've also been simple move if the needs with the
application change [2].

There are lots of applications of WSN:

1. Process Management: Area monitoring is a very common using WSNs. In area

monitoring, the WSN is deployed spanning a region where some phenomenon is
usually to be monitored. A military example may be the use of sensors detect
enemy intrusion; a civilian example would be the geo-fencing of gas or oil
pipelines. Area monitoring is most important part.

2. Healthcare monitoring: The medical applications might be of two sorts: wearable

and implanted. Wearable devices are applied to the body surface of the human or
maybe at close proximity from the user. The implantable medical devices are the
ones that are inserted inside your body. There are numerous other applications
too e.g. body position measurement and of the person, overall monitoring of ill
patients in hospitals and also at homes.

3. Environmental/Earth sensing: There are numerous applications in monitoring

environmental parameters samples of which are given below. They share any
additional challenges of harsh environments and reduced power supply.

4. Polluting of the environment monitoring: Wireless sensor networks have been

deployed in lots of cities (Stockholm, London and Brisbane) to monitor the power
of dangerous gases for citizens. These can leverage the random wireless links
instead of wired installations that also make them more mobile for testing readings
in several areas.

5. Forest fire detection: A network of Sensor Nodes is usually positioned in a forest

to detect every time a fire has begun. The nodes is usually with sensors to
measure temperature, humidity and gases which are produced by fire within the
trees or vegetation. The first detection is necessary to get a successful action of
the fire fighters; As a result of Wireless as Sensor Networks, the fire brigade are
able to know when a fire begins you bet it can be spreading.

6. Landslide detection: A landslide detection system uses a wireless sensor network

to detect the slight movements of soil and modifications to various parameters
that will occur before or throughout a landslide. With the data gathered it may be
possible to know the appearance of landslides before it genuinely happens.

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7. Water quality monitoring: Water quality monitoring involves analyzing water
properties in dams, rivers, lakes & oceans, and also underground water reserves.
The application of many wireless distributed sensors enables the creation of a
accurate map on the water status, and allows the permanent deployment of
monitoring stations in locations of difficult access, while not manual data retrieval.

8. Natural disaster prevention: Wireless sensor networks can effectively act to avoid
the results of disasters, like floods .Wireless nodes have successfully been
deployed in rivers where changes in the water levels have to be monitored in real
time [8].

9. Industrial monitoring:

a. Machine health monitoring: Wireless sensor networks happen to be

developed for machinery condition based maintenance (CBM) as they
offer significant personal savings and enable new functionality .In wired
systems, installing enough sensors can often be tied to the price of wiring.
Previously inaccessible locations, rotating machinery, hazardous or
restricted areas, and mobile assets can now be reached with wireless
sensors.
b. Data logging: Wireless sensor networks are also employed for the
gathering of web data for monitoring of environmental information; this is
often as easy as the monitoring from the temperature in a very fridge to
the level of water in overflow tanks in nuclear power plants. The statistical
information will then be employed to show how systems have been
working. The main benefit of WSNs over conventional loggers is the "live"
data feed which is possible.
c. Water/Waste water monitoring: Monitoring the high quality and level of
water includes many activities including checking the quality of
underground or surface water and ensuring a country’s water
infrastructure for your benefit of both human and animal .It may be helpful
to protect the wastage of water.
d. Structural Health Monitoring: Wireless sensor networks enables you to
monitor the fitness of civil infrastructure and related geophysical
processes all around real time, and more than very long stretches through
data logging, using appropriately interfaced sensors [8].

Research Challenges in Wireless Sensor Networks

A brief history on the research in SN, but more interesting may be the overview within the
technical challenges and issues is presented, from where we could cite several relevant
items: WSN working in a harsh environment; the ability with the network (leastways the
neighbors); the network control and routing; querying and tasking (should be as simple
and intuitive as it can be); plus security issues (low latency, survivable, low probability of
detecting communications, high reliability) [10].

1. Security: Security is often a broadly used term encompassing the characteristics

of authentication, integrity, privacy, non repudiation, and anti-playback. The
greater the dependency on the info supplied by the networks may be increased,
the more potential risk of secure transmission of information in the networks has
increased. To the secure transmission of numerous kinds of information over

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networks, several cryptographic, steganography and other techniques are utilized
that happen to be renowned. In this section, we discuss the network security
fundamentals you bet the techniques are meant for wireless sensor networks [11].

2. Cryptography: The encryption-decryption techniques devised for your traditional

wired networks usually are not feasible to be employed directly for the wireless
networks in particular for wireless sensor networks. WSNs include things like tiny
sensors which really suffer from the possible lack of processing, memory and
battery Applying the security mechanisms for instance encryption could also
increase delay, jitter and packet loss in wireless sensor networks when applying
encryption schemes to WSNs like, what sort of keys are generated or
disseminated. How a keys are managed, revoked, assigned to your new sensor
put into the network or renewed for ensuring robust to protect the network
Adoption of pre-loaded keys or embedded keys could hardly be an efficient
solution [11].

3. Steganography: While cryptography aims at hiding necessary of a message,

steganography aims at hiding a good the message. Steganography is the art of
covert communication by embedding a note in to the multimedia data (image,
sound, video, etc.) . The leading objective of steganography is to modify the
carrier in a fashion that is just not perceptible and hence, it looks the same as
ordinary [11].

4. Physical Layer Secure Access: Physical layer secure access in wireless sensor
networks may very well be offered by using frequency hopping. A dynamic
mixture of the parameters like hopping set (available frequencies for hopping),
dwell time (interval per hop) and hopping pattern (the sequence in which the
frequencies in the available hopping set is used) could be combined with a little
expense of memory, processing and resources. Important points in physical layer
secure access will be the efficient design in order that the hopping sequence is
modified in less time than is required to discover it and for employing this both
sender and receiver should maintain a synchronized clock. A scheme as
proposed in may be utilized which introduces secure physical layer access
employing the singular vectors while using channel synthesized modulation.
Attacks against wireless sensor networks may very well be broadly considered
from two different levels of views. One is the attack from the security mechanisms
and this band are brilliant from the basic mechanisms (like routing mechanisms).
Ideas signalize the most important attacks in wireless sensor networks [11].

5. Localization: It is amongst the key techniques in wireless sensor network. The

place estimation method is usually classified into Target / source localization and
node self-localization. In target localization, we mainly introduce the energy-based
method. Then we investigate the node self-localization methods. Considering that
the widespread adoption on the wireless sensor network, the localization methods
are wide and varied in several applications. There are some challenges using
some special scenarios. With this paper, we present a wide survey these
challenges: localization in non-line-of-sight, node selection criteria for localization
in energy-constrained network, scheduling the sensor node to optimize the
tradeoff between localization performance and energy consumption, cooperative
node localization, and localization algorithm in heterogeneous network. Finally, we

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introduce the evaluation criteria for localization in wireless sensor network. The
entire process of estimating the unknown node position inside the network is
known as node self-localization. And WSN comprises a large number of
inexpensive nodes which are densely deployed in a very region of interests to
measure certain phenomenon. The leading objective would be to determine the
location of the target [12]. Localization is significant travelers have an uncertainty
with the exact location of some fixed or mobile devices. One example has been in
the supervision of humidity and temperature in forests and/or fields, where
thousands of sensors are deployed by way of plane, giving the operator minimal
possible ways to influence may location of node. An efficient localization algorithm
might utilize all the free information from the wireless sensor nodes to infer the
positioning of the individual devices. Another application will be the positioning of
an mobile robot determined by received signal strength from your number of radio
beacons placed at known locations around the factory floor. The primary function
of an location estimation method to calculate the geographic coordinates of
network nodes with unknown position in the deployment area. Localization in
wireless sensor networks is the process of determining the geographical positions
of sensors. Only a number of the sensors (anchors) inside the networks have prior
knowledge about their geographical positions. Localization algorithms utilize
location information of anchors and estimates of distances between neighboring
nodes to discover the positions in the rest of the sensors [13].

6. Power-Consumption: A wireless sensor node can be a popular solution when it is

difficult or impossible to perform a mains supply towards sensor node. However,
because the wireless sensor node is normally positioned in a hard to reach
location, changing the battery regularly will not be free and inconvenient. An
essential take into account the introduction of a wireless sensor node is making
sure that there's always adequate energy accessible to power the system [14].
The facility consumption rate for sensors in the wireless sensor network varies
greatly good protocols the sensors use for communications. The Gossip-Based
Sleep Protocol (GSP) implements routing and many MAC functions in a energy
conserving manner. The effectiveness of GSP has already been demonstrated via
simulation. However, no prototype system has become previously developed.
GSP was implemented for the Mica2 platform and measurements were conducted
to discover the improvement in network lifetime. Results for energy consumption,
transmitted and received power, minimum voltage supply necessary for operation,
effect of transmission power on energy consumption, and different methods for
measuring time of a sensor node are presented. The behavior of sensor nodes
when they're all around their end of lifetime is described and analyzed [14].

7. Deployment: Sensor networks provide capability to monitor real-world phenomena

in more detail and also at large scale by embedding wireless network of sensor
nodes in the environment. Here, deployment is anxious with establishing an
operational sensor network inside a real-world environment. On many occasions,
deployment is often a labor-intensive and cumbersome task as environmental
influences trigger bugs or degrade performance in a way that is not observed
during pre-deployment testing within a lab. The real reason for this really is that
the real life features a strong influence for the function of your sensor network by
governing the output of sensors, by influencing the existence and excellence of
wireless communication links, and also by putting physical strain on sensor
nodes. These influences is only able to be modeled to your very restricted extent
in simulators and lab testbeds. Home the typical problems encountered during

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deployment is rare.You can only speculate for the grounds for this. On one side, a
paper which only describes what actually transpired during a deployment seldom
constitutes novel research and could possibly be hard to get published. However,
people might often hide or ignore problems that are not directly related to their
field of research. It is additionally often tough to discriminate desired and non-
desired functional effects for the different layers or levels of detail [15].

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