Energy efficient communications solutions for nomadic nodes within a wireless sensor networks

Authors:
Luca Bencini;Francesco Chiti;Giovanni Collodi;Davide Di Palma;Romano Fantacci;Antonio Manes;Gianfranco Manes
Affiliations:
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy;Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence, Firenze, Italy
Venue:
RWS'09 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Radio and wireless symposium
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Presently, wireless sensor networks most challenging applications are related to mobile sinks or even nodes, monitoring and intervening in critical areas. To this end, proper communications protocols design plays a crucial role in fulfilling user requirements. In the following, the benefits of adopting directive antennas, both in terms of energy saving and targets tracking are presented by integrating this feature into a novel MAC protocol (MD-STAR). Simulation results are also deeply provided, underlining higher performance of MD-STAR with respect to existing solutions, for different directive main lobe width and node density values.