Wired Vs Wireless Deployment Support For Wireless Sensor Networks

Abstract

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have recently gained popularity among graduate and undergraduate student researchers due to the availability of sensor nodes at low cost. This low cost along with miniaturization of nodes has made it possible to employ WSNs in many applications. To test the performance of WSN in the field we need some infrastructure which monitor the status of each node and also serve as a link for reprogramming. Such infrastructure is termed as deployment support by the researchers. In this paper we first introduce wireless sensor network and then review two deployment support infrastructures one wired and other wireless implemented by two different teams. The merits and limitations of both are discussed in the end