TY - JOUR
T1 - A wireless biosensor network using autonomously controlled animals
AU - Li, Yihan
AU - Panwar, Shivendra S.
AU - Mao, Shiwen
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported in part by the National Science Foun - dation (NSF), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the New York State Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), and the NSF sponsored Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) at Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, New York. This work was greatly enriched by discussion with Professor John Chapin, whose DARPA grant funded this work, and his group at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and Professor Yao Wang, who leads a parallel effort on video coding and video stabilization for the bio-sensor network. We also want to thank Professors Henry Bertoni, David Goodman, Zhong-ping Jiang, and Joshua Gluckman for their constructive discussions. We thank Srinivas Burugupalli and Jong Ha Lee for obtaining the experimental results presented in this article.
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - Recent research shows that animals can be guided remotely by stimulating regions of the brain. Therefore, it is possible to set up an animal wireless sensor network for search and rescue operations, which is of great importance to society with a broad spectrum of applications, including natural disaster recovery, homeland security, and military operations. In a wireless biosensor network, each animal carries a backpack for data capture, processing, and network communications, and collaborates in routing and forwarding packets for each other. In this article the system architecture and operation of the biosensor network are introduced. A simple but efficient routing scheme tailored for this special sensor network is presented, as well as our implementation of a backpack prototype used to capture and transfer video data. Other major technical challenges and interrelated issues for this biosensor network are also addressed.
AB - Recent research shows that animals can be guided remotely by stimulating regions of the brain. Therefore, it is possible to set up an animal wireless sensor network for search and rescue operations, which is of great importance to society with a broad spectrum of applications, including natural disaster recovery, homeland security, and military operations. In a wireless biosensor network, each animal carries a backpack for data capture, processing, and network communications, and collaborates in routing and forwarding packets for each other. In this article the system architecture and operation of the biosensor network are introduced. A simple but efficient routing scheme tailored for this special sensor network is presented, as well as our implementation of a backpack prototype used to capture and transfer video data. Other major technical challenges and interrelated issues for this biosensor network are also addressed.
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U2 - 10.1109/MNET.2006.1637926
DO - 10.1109/MNET.2006.1637926
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33745057166
SN - 0890-8044
VL - 20
SP - 6
EP - 11
JO - IEEE Network
JF - IEEE Network
IS - 3
ER -