Title :
Pulse Switching for Static Event Sensing in Sensor Networks
Author :
Huo, Qiong ; Biswas, Subir ; Plummer, Anthony, Jr.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI, USA
Abstract :
This paper presents a novel energy-efficient pulse switching protocol for ultra light-weight wireless network applications. The key idea is to abstract a single pulse, as opposed to multi-bit packets, as the information exchange mechanism. Pulse switching is shown to be sufficient for event sensing applications with binary sensing. Event sensing with conventional packet transport can be prohibitively energy-inefficient due to the communication, processing, and buffering overheads of the large number of bits within a packet´s data, header, and preambles. The paper presents a joint MAC-Routing architecture for pulse switching with a novel hop-angular event localization. Through simulation experiments, it is shown that pulse switching can be an effective means for event based networking, which can potentially replace the packet transport when the information to be transported is binary in nature.
Keywords :
access protocols; telecommunication network routing; wireless sensor networks; MAC-routing architecture; conventional packet transport; energy-efficient pulse switching protocol; event based networking; hop-angular event localization; information exchange mechanism; sensor network; static event sensing; ultra light-weight wireless network; Delay; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Routing; Sensors; Switches; Synchronization;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011), 2011 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Houston, TX, USA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9266-4
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-529X
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6133514