Communication Buses and Protocols for Sensor Networks.docVIP

Sensors 2002, 2, 244-257 sensors ISSN 1424-8220 ? 2002 by MDPI /sensors Invited Paper Communication Buses and Protocols for Sensor Networks Junwei Zhou and Andrew Mason* Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, 2120 Engineering Building, East Lansing, Michigan, USA 48824-1226 * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: mason@ Received: / Accepted: / Published: 4 July 2002 Abstract: This paper overviews existing digital communication buses which are commonly used in sensor networks, discusses sensor network architectures, and