Timely data delivery in sensor networks using whirlpool Divyasheel Sharma, Vladimir I. Zadorozhny, and Panos K. Chrysanthis   View Paper (PDF)   Return to In Network Processing and Routing Abstract In this paper, we introduce a rotating interrogation technique for sensor networks called Whirlpool. Whirlpool provides opportunities to optimize data delivery in time-critical monitoring applications. We explore concurrency opportunities while delivering data using the whirlpool strategy and investigate several whirlpool algorithms. We also demonstrate extra benefits of using whirlpool with our algebraic optimization framework based on Data Transmission Algebra. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery