A Transmission Scheduling for Data-Gathering Wireless Sensor Networks

Author

Gao, Chao ; Kivelä, Ilkka ; Tan, Xinyu ; Hakala, Ismo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Technol., Vaasa Univ. of Appl. Sci., Vaasa, Finland

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

292

Lastpage

297

Abstract

In this paper we present a transmission scheduling protocol for data-gathering Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). We focus on the delivery performance in term of overall Packet Receive Ratio (PRR) at the sink node. In order to reduce the energy consumption and increase the overall delivery performance, elaborated scheduling algorithm is applied to the transmission and relaying of data packets, based on a beacon-broadcasting global synchronization. We tested the protocol using CiNet nodes, which is built on IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio modules CC2420 and Jennic JN5148, and obtained significant delivery improvement in multihop scenarios. This protocol is suitable for energy-hungry data gathering wireless sensor networks in which the sensor nodes use a short time window for radio activities in order to save energy.

Keywords

protocols; scheduling; synchronisation; wireless sensor networks; CC2420; CiNet nodes; IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio modules; Jennic JN5148; PRR; beacon-broadcasting global synchronization; data gathering WSN; data packet relaying; data packet transmission; energy consumption reductiobn; energy-hungry data gathering wireless sensor networks; multihop scenario; packet receive ratio; radio activities; sensor nodes; short time window; sink node; transmission scheduling protocol; IEEE 802.15 Standards; Protocols; Relays; Routing; Sensors; Synchronization; Wireless sensor networks; clustering; routing; synchronized network; transmission scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ubiquitous Intelligence & Computing and 9th International Conference on Autonomic & Trusted Computing (UIC/ATC), 2012 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Fukuoka

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-3084-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/UIC-ATC.2012.48

Filename

6332011