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- A scalable and efficient approach for obtaining measurements in CAN-Based control systemsPublication . Andersson, Björn; Pereira, Nuno; Elmenreich, Wilfried; Tovar, Eduardo; Pacheco, Filipe; Cruz, NunoThe availability of small inexpensive sensor elements enables the employment of large wired or wireless sensor networks for feeding control systems. Unfortunately, the need to transmit a large number of sensor measurements over a network negatively affects the timing parameters of the control loop. This paper presents a solution to this problem by representing sensor measurements with an approximate representation-an interpolation of sensor measurements as a function of space coordinates. A priority-based medium access control (MAC) protocol is used to select the sensor messages with high information content. Thus, the information from a large number of sensor measurements is conveyed within a few messages. This approach greatly reduces the time for obtaining a snapshot of the environment state and therefore supports the real-time requirements of feedback control loops.
- Using a prioritized medium access control protocol for incrementally obtaining an interpolation of sensor readingsPublication . Andersson, Björn; Pereira, Nuno; Tovar, Eduardo; Gomes, RicardoThis paper addresses sensor network applications which need to obtain an accurate image of physical phenomena and do so with a high sampling rate in both time and space. We present a fast and scalable approach for obtaining an approximate representation of all sensor readings at high sampling rate for quickly reacting to critical events in a physical environment. This approach is an improvement on previous work in that after the new approach has undergone a startup phase then the new approach can use a very small sampling period.