Use your favorite search engine to find out what is meant by the ‘self- organizing property of sensor networks’?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Self-organizing sensor networks may be built from sensor nodes and may
spontaneously create impromptu network, assemble the network themselves, dynamically adapt to device failure and degradation, manage movement of sensor nodes, and react to changes in task and network requirements. Self-organizing sensor networks can be built using reconfigurable smart sensor nodes that enables sensor devices to be self-aware, self- reconfigurable and autonomous. The main benefits of these features are:

- To provide capabilities for sensor network nodes used in tactical and
surveillance applications for forming impromptu network, deploying sensors incrementally, and to assemble themselves without any central administration.
- To provide capabilities for sensor networks to adapt dynamically to device failure and degradation and changes in task and network requirements.
- To change network topologies by switching between sensors in sleep mode and work mode, thus increasing the life of the whole network due to reduced overall power usage.
- To integrate various network and system services provided by mixed types of sensor nodes and embedded defense applications. Information can be obtained from:
www.eng.auburn.edu/users/lim/sensit/page2.html
- More information available at:
http://dtsn.darpa.mil/ixo/psum2001/K286-0.html ,and also at
www.home.cs.utwente.nl/~havinga/sensor.html .