Analysis of Duty Cycle Adaptation in Wireless Sensor Networks

As shown in previous work, the duty cycle can be adapted to the traffic of the applications in higher OSI layers. In this paper, an analysis approach is shown to determine the static and dynamic behavior of the previously proposed adaptation algorithm. Therefore, we use two different mathematical tool sets: Markov chains and difference equations. Comparisons with simulations results show that the analytic approach delivers results that can properly approximate the adaptation behavior for static and analytic scenarios.