Battery friendly packet transmission scheme for body sensor networks

Author

Li, Hong-Gang ; Li, Ye

Author_Institution

Shenzhen Inst. of Adv. Technol., Shenzhen, China

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 30 2011-Sept. 3 2011

Firstpage

2200

Lastpage

2203

Abstract

For body sensor networks (BSN) nodes, extending battery lifetime is one of the key problems. In this paper, we address the problems of designing battery-friendly packet transmission policies in order to maximize the lifetime of batteries for BSN nodes under certain delay and deadline constraints. We present local optimization scheme for slack time and evaluate it with respect to battery performance. The algorithm first simplifies the analytical battery model under the premise of ensuring battery model precision, and then distributes the available slack time between two adjacent tasks. The scheme was simulated for BSN nodes, and the results demonstrate a 79% reduction in the total charge consumption of six tasks in a BSN node along with the deadline constraint of 40 mins.

Keywords

biomedical measurement; body sensor networks; data communication; packet radio networks; power supplies to apparatus; BSN nodes; analytical battery model; battery lifetime; body sensor networks; local optimization scheme; packet transmission scheme; Analytical models; Batteries; Computational modeling; Optimization; Scheduling; Wireless communication; Wireless sensor networks; Computer Communication Networks; Electric Power Supplies; Energy Transfer; Equipment Design; Equipment Failure Analysis; Information Storage and Retrieval; Monitoring, Ambulatory; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Transducers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

1557-170X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4121-1

Electronic_ISBN

1557-170X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090415

Filename

6090415