A cross-layer framework for optimal delay-margin, network lifetime and utility tradeoff in wireless visual sensor networks

  • Authors:

  • M. Tahir;R. Farrell

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore 54890, Pakistan and Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, La ...;Institute of Microelectronics and Wireless Systems, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • Ad Hoc Networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

For wireless multimedia sensor networks a distributed cross-layer framework is proposed, which not only achieves an optimal tradeoff between network lifetime and its utility but also provides end-to-end delay-margin. The delay-margin, defined as the gap between maximum end-to-end delay threshold and the actual end-to-end delay incurred by the network, is exploited by the application layer to achieve any desired level of delay quality-of-service. For optimal performance tradeoff an appropriate objective function for delay-margin is required, which is obtained by employing sensitivity analysis. Sensitivity analysis is performed by incorporating delay-margin in the end-to-end delay constraints while penalizing its price in the objective function. For distributed realization of proposed cross-layer framework, the optimal tradeoff problem is decomposed into network lifetime, utility and delay-margin subproblems coupled through dual variables. The numerical results for performance evaluation show that compromising network utility does not guarantee both lifetime and delay-margin improvement, simultaneously, for the set of operating points. Performance evaluation results also reveal that the fairness among different delay-margins, corresponding to different source-destination node pairs, can be improved by relaxing the end-to-end delay threshold.