Wireless Sensor Systems for Extreme Environments

Habib F. Rashvand is Professor of Networks, Systems & Protocols and Director of Advanced Communication Systems, University of Warwick, School of Engineering, UK. Dr. Ali Abedi is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Center Undergraduate Research (CUGR) at University of Maine. He has a joint appointment at the School of Computing and Information Sciences.

List of Contributors xix Preface xxiii Part I Wireless Sensor Systems for Extreme EnvironmentsGeneric Solutions 1 1 Wireless Sensor Systems for Extreme Environments 3 Habib F. Rashvand and Ali Abedi 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Wireless Sensor Systems for Space and other Extreme Environments 4 1.3 Chapter Abstracts 6 Reference 19 2 Feedback Control Challenges with Wireless Networks in Extreme Environments 21 Lonnie Labonte, Ali Abedi and Praveen Shankar 2.1 Introduction 21 2.2 Controllers in Extreme Environments 22 2.3 System Dynamics and Control Design Fundamentals 24 2.4 Feedback Control Challenges when using Wireless Networks 32 2.5 Effect of Delay on the Transient Response of a Second-order System 38 2.6 Discussion 42 2.7 Summary 42 References 43 3 Optimizing Lifetime and Power Consumption for Sensing Applications in Extreme Environments 45 Gholamreza Alirezaei, Omid Taghizadeh and Rudolf Mathar 3.1 Introduction 45 3.2 Overview and Technical System Description 46 3.3 Power and Lifetime Optimization 48 3.4 Visualization and Numerical Results 54 3.5 Application of Power Control in Extreme Environments 58 3.6 Summary 62 References 63 4 On Improving Connectivity-based Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks 65 Bang Wang 4.1 Introduction 65 4.2 Connectivity-based Localization in One-hop Networks 66 4.3 Connectivity-based Localization in Multi-hop Networks 67 4.4 On Improving Connectivity-based Localization 70 4.5 Summary 78 References 79 5 Rare-events Sensing and Event-powered Wireless Sensor Networks 83 Winston K.G. Seah and David Harrison 5.1 Coverage Preservation 85 5.2 Event-powered Wireless Sensor 92 5.3 Cluster-Centric WSNs for Rare-event Monitoring 100 5.4 Summary 106 References 107 Part II Space WSS Solutions and Applications 111 6 Battery-less Sensors for Space 113 Ali Abedi 6.1 Introduction 113 6.2 Wired or Wireless Sensing: CostBenefit Analysis 114 6.3 Active and Passive Wireless Sensors 117 6.4 Design Considerations for Battery-less Sensors 119 6.5 Summary 121 References 122 7 Contact Plan Design for Predictable Disruption-tolerant Space Sensor Networks 123 Juan A. Fraire, Pablo Madoery and Jorge M. Finochietto 7.1 Introduction 123 7.2 Contact Plan Design Methodology 129 7.3 Contact Plan Design Analysis 140 7.4 Contact Plan Design Discussion 145 7.5 Summary 147 References 147 8 Infrared Wireless Sensor Network Development for the Ariane Launcher 151 Hendra Kesuma, Johannes Sebald and Steffen Paul 8.1 Introduction 151 8.2 Development Processes and Measurements of Infrared Transceiver Asic 154 8.3 Summary 166 References 167 9 Multichannel Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring 169 Pascale Minet, Gerard Chalhoub, Erwan Livolant, Michel Misson, Ridha Soua, Rana Diab, Badr Rmili and Jean-Francois Perelgritz 9.1 Context 169 9.2 General Multichannel Challenges 173 9.3 Multichannel Challenges for Data Gathering Support 181 9.4 Sahara: Example of Solution 188 9.5 Summary 197 Acknowledgments 197 References 198 10 Wireless Piezoelectric Sensor Systems for Defect Detection and Localization 201 Xuewu Dai, Shang Gao, Kewen Pan, Jiwen Zhu and Habib F. Rashvand 10.1 Introduction 201 10.2 Lamb Wave-based Defect Detection 204 10.3 Wireless PZT Sensor Networks 209 10.4 Wireless PZT Sensor Node 211 10.5 Distributed Data Processing 212 10.6 Summary 215 Conflict of Interests 216 Acknowledgment 216 References 216 11 Navigation and Remote Sensing using Near-space Satellite Platforms 221 Wen-Qin Wang and Dingde Jiang 11.1 Background and Motivation 221 11.2 Near-space Platforms in Wireless Sensor Systems 225 11.3 Overview of NSPs in Wireless Sensor Systems 228 11.4 Integrated Wireless Sensor Systems 231 11.5 Arrangement of Near-space Platforms 234 11.6 Limitations and Vulnerabilities 236 11.7 Summary 238 References 239 Part III Underwater and S