PHY-MAC Cross-Layer Approach to Energy-Efficiency and Packet-Loss Trade-off in Low-Power, Low-Rate Wireless Communications

Author

Zogovic, N. ; Dimic, Goran ; Bajic, D.

Author_Institution

Inst. Mihajlo Pupin, Univ. of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Volume

17

Issue

4

fYear

2013

fDate

Apr-13

Firstpage

661

Lastpage

664

Abstract

In this paper we analyze energy-efficiency and packet-loss trade-off at physical and medium access control layers. The trade-off can be tuned by proper setting of packet length, transmission power and maximal number of allowed transmissions per packet. Our approach is multi-objective without decision making preferences. We show how energy-efficiency vs. packet-loss Pareto Frontier can be determined. We present numerical results for the case when CC1000 transceiver is used. Contrary to intuition, we find that Pareto Frontier is not a continual locus, meaning that energy-efficiency and packet-loss can not be traded continually in Pareto Optimality sense.

Keywords

Pareto analysis; access protocols; energy conservation; packet radio networks; CC1000 transceiver; PHY-MAC crosslayer approach; Pareto Frontier; allowed per packet transmission; energy efficiency; medium access control; multiobjective approach; packet length; packet loss trade-off; physical layer; transmission power; wireless communication; Media Access Protocol; Optimized production technology; Power demand; Reliability; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Energy-efficiency; packet-loss; trade-off;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2013.021913.122663

Filename

6511519