On the effect of heterogeneous traffic sources on the network availability for wireless sensor grids

  • Authors:
  • Ali Hammad Akbar;Ki-Hyung Kim;Shaokai Yu;Won-Sik Yoon

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information and Communication, Korea;Graduate School of Information and Communication, Korea;Ajou University (Invited Faculty Programme), Korea;School of Electrical Engineering, Ajou University, Suwon, Korea

  • Venue:
  • ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Wireless sensor grids are poised for applications where pre-deployment information is highly available to optimize communication and computation costs. Using two widely known grid traversal schemes, we critique the effect of multiple services being rendered by a sensor network onto its availability. We derive an interesting result using Markovian model to appreciate the effect of load heterogeneity onto node and network lifetimes. Our mathematical model also analyzes synchronous sleep for its effect on energy conservation. We also propose a epicenter regulated, asynchronous sleep scheme which allows nodes to conserve energy yet relay data towards the sink effectively. The performance results show that the proposed scheme prolongs network availability in sensor grids.