GCP: Gossip-based Code Propagation for Large-scale Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks

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dc.creatorBusnel, Yann
dc.creatorBertier, Marin
dc.creatorFleury, Eric
dc.creatorKermarrec, Anne-Marie
dc.date2007-07-25
dc.date2007-07-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T08:20:39Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T08:20:39Z
dc.descriptionWireless sensor networks (WSN) have recently received an increasing interest. They are now expected to be deployed for long periods of time, thus requiring software updates. Updating the software code automatically on a huge number of sensors is a tremendous task, as ''by hand'' updates can obviously not be considered, especially when all participating sensors are embedded on mobile entities. In this paper, we investigate an approach to automatically update software in mobile sensor-based application when no localization mechanism is available. We leverage the peer-to-peer cooperation paradigm to achieve a good trade-off between reliability and scalability of code propagation. More specifically, we present the design and evaluation of GCP ({\emph Gossip-based Code Propagation}), a distributed software update algorithm for mobile wireless sensor networks. GCP relies on two different mechanisms (piggy-backing and forwarding control) to improve significantly the load balance without sacrificing on the propagation speed. We compare GCP against traditional dissemination approaches. Simulation results based on both synthetic and realistic workloads show that GCP achieves a good convergence speed while balancing the load evenly between sensors.
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3717
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3717
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/135132
dc.subjectNetworking and Internet Architecture
dc.titleGCP: Gossip-based Code Propagation for Large-scale Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
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