Title

Spatio-temporal sampling, rates and energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks

Authors

Authors

S. Bandyopadhyay; Q. J. Tian;E. J. Coyle

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE-ACM Trans. Netw.

Keywords

clustered networks; sensor networks; spatio-temporal sampling; Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture; Computer Science, Theory &; Methods; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications

Abstract

A multi-hop network of wireless sensors can be used to gather spatio-temporal samples of a physical phenomenon and transmit these samples to a processing center. This paper addresses an important issue in the design of such networks: determining the spatio-temporal sampling rate of the network under conditions of minimum energy usage. A new collision-free protocol for gathering sensor data is-used to obtain analytical results that characterize the tradeoffs among sensor density, energy usage, throughput, delay, temporal sampling rates and spatial sampling rates in wireless sensor networks. We also show that the lower bound on the delay incurred in gathering data is O(k(2)n) in a clustered network of n sensors with at most k hops between any sensor and its clusterhead (CH). Simulation results on the tradeoff between the achievable spatial sampling rates and the achievable temporal sampling rates when IEEE 802.11 distributed coordination function (DCF) is used as the media access scheme are provided and compared with the analytical results obtained in this paper.

Journal Title

Ieee-Acm Transactions on Networking

Volume

13

Issue/Number

6

Publication Date

1-1-2005

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

1339

Last Page

1352

WOS Identifier

WOS:000234121500011

ISSN

1063-6692

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