Opportunistic, receiver-initiated data-collection protocol

  • Authors:
  • Stefan Unterschütz;Christian Renner;Volker Turau

  • Affiliations:
  • Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany;Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany;Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • EWSN'12 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents and evaluates ORiNoCo, a novel data-collection and event-reporting protocol for sensor networks. ORiNoCo is built upon the asynchronous duty-cycle protocol RI-MAC and breaks with the tradition of exchanging extensive neighborhood information, a cornerstone of many competing collection protocols and one of their major source of communication overhead and energy expenditure. The merit of this venture is an opportunistic, energy-efficient, latency-reducing, and self-stabilizing protocol. ORiNoCo comes at virtually no extra costs in terms of memory demand and communication overhead compared to RI-MAC. We derive theoretical boundaries for the improvements in radio efficiency, latency, and energy-consumption. ORiNoCo is verified with these findings via simulation and compared with CTP. ORiNoCo achieves lower energy-consumption while reducing end-to-end delays.