Safeguarding schedule updates in wireless sensor networks

Yongle Cao, Ziguo Zhong, Yu Gu, Tian He

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Abstract

Working in the duty cycling mode enables sensor nodes to utilize limited energy efficiently instead of unnecessary idle listening. In such networks, awareness of neighboring nodes' working schedules is essential, especially when each node sets up the schedule independently. Most traditional research assumes that a node can always share its working schedule with its neighbors once it joins the network. However, dynamic energy supply and varied requirements of system performance make adjusting duty cycles necessary. Consequently, sensor nodes have to regularly change their schedules and advertise the new schedule to their one-hop neighbors. In this work, instead of changing nodes' working schedule directly, we introduce SSD, a staged and smooth design for safeguarding schedule updates. Our design is aimed at bounding average packet loss rate with a minimum energy cost. We evaluate our design with large-scale simulation and show that under the comparable packet loss rate, our design saves up to 35% energy compared with the minimal packet loss solution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2011 Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM
Pages606-610
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
EventIEEE INFOCOM 2011 - Shanghai, China
Duration: Apr 10 2011Apr 15 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
ISSN (Print)0743-166X

Other

OtherIEEE INFOCOM 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityShanghai
Period4/10/114/15/11

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