On Oct 11, 2004, at 10:36 PM, S Mir wrote:

Hello All,

I was wondering if I could get some comments and
suggestions from the list members.

Is it possible, and does it make sense, to use Tinyos
motes in a STAR topology network, where each node ONLY
communicates with the master node/station ?

I am basically looking for a sensor platform to build
a traditional STAR network where each node will come
up (boot up), start capturing and reporting data back
to the base station.   No communication is to occur
between the nodes.   Tinyos seems very appealing but
is it possible to use Tinyos in a NON-mesh network ?

Any comments or suggestions would be highly
appreciated.

Yes. This has been done. Check out Robert Szewczyk's paper in SenSys 2004, on the Great Duck Island deployment. Some nodes reported data over a multihop tree, others reported to a base station over a single hop (a star).


Phil

-------

"We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time."

- T. S. Eliot,  'Little Gidding'

_______________________________________________
Tinyos-users mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.Millennium.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/tinyos-users

Reply via email to