Many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) systems are deployed in unattended areas using non-rechargeable batteries.To enable sustainable operations,most WSN systems employ duty-cycling mechanisms,such as Low Power Listening...Many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) systems are deployed in unattended areas using non-rechargeable batteries.To enable sustainable operations,most WSN systems employ duty-cycling mechanisms,such as Low Power Listening (LPL).For reliable delivery of each packet with LPL,the sender has to transmit a preamble that is long enough to span over a complete sleep interval of the receiver.In this way,the sensor nodes avoid idle listening,however,at the cost of remarkably increased end-to-end delay of multi-hop packet transmissions.To address this issue,in this paper we propose a new duty-cycling mechanism called DC-Gear.DC-Gear exploits a "sleep less but save more" phenomenon,which means increasing the duty cycle in a timely and appropriate manner whileminimizing the overall energy cost and satisfying the end-to-end delay constraint.We have implemented DC-Gear with TelosB motes and demonstrated its performance advantages through extensive experiments.展开更多
基金supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No.2011CB302705)the National Natural Science Fourdation of China(60970123)
文摘Many Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) systems are deployed in unattended areas using non-rechargeable batteries.To enable sustainable operations,most WSN systems employ duty-cycling mechanisms,such as Low Power Listening (LPL).For reliable delivery of each packet with LPL,the sender has to transmit a preamble that is long enough to span over a complete sleep interval of the receiver.In this way,the sensor nodes avoid idle listening,however,at the cost of remarkably increased end-to-end delay of multi-hop packet transmissions.To address this issue,in this paper we propose a new duty-cycling mechanism called DC-Gear.DC-Gear exploits a "sleep less but save more" phenomenon,which means increasing the duty cycle in a timely and appropriate manner whileminimizing the overall energy cost and satisfying the end-to-end delay constraint.We have implemented DC-Gear with TelosB motes and demonstrated its performance advantages through extensive experiments.
