Evolution of Wireless Sensor Network in Military or Defense Applications

Abstract

Micro-electronics has made wireless sensor networks a promising technology. Classifying and designing routing mechanisms or protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks are challenging due to the some inherent characteristics that distinguish this network from the other wireless networks such as mobile ad hoc networks, cellular networks, and wireless mesh networks. Due to these unique inherent characteristics, it is a challenging task to select or propose a new algorithm for a specific WSN application for Defense or military. This contribution is basically a detail survey which is organized in two folds. In first fold focus is on issues on which WSN routing protocols has been categorized or classified. Second fold exploring the issues that are actually challenges which must be considered while selecting or designing an algorithm for routing purpose in WSNs for military. This paper is a concept of operation of wireless sensor network on military application.

Key Words: Sensor network, network routing and control, querying and tasking, sensor networks, tracking and classification, wireless networks.