Distributed algorithms for sleep scheduling in wireless sensor networks

Sumit Chachra, Michael Marefat

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24 Scopus citations

Abstract

It has been found that the sensor nodes dissipate a significant proportion of their energy in redundant sensing and idle listening. The former occurs when multiple sensor nodes perform their sensing activity in the same region. The latter occurs when sensor nodes have their radios switched on awaiting incoming communication from other sensor nodes, but none is received since no sensor node is wanting to communicate with it. Researchers have proposed putting the sensors and/or the radios of sensor nodes to sleep (switch them off) so as to conserve energy. The task of scheduling when the sensors and/or radios need to be in sleep/active mode is referred to as sleep scheduling. Sensor sleeping may result in interesting events being missed by the network or may lead to a lower quality of data being sensed. Radio sleeping may lead to communication delays in the network. In this work we propose several distributed algorithms to perform sensor and radio sleep scheduling in wireless sensor networks while trying to minimize its negative impact.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006
Pages3101-3107
Number of pages7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: May 15 2006May 19 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Volume2006
ISSN (Print)1050-4729

Other

Other2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period5/15/065/19/06

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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