Energy-efficient reliable data dissemination in duty-cycled wireless sensor networks

  • Authors:
  • Kai Han;Liu Xiang;Jun Luo;Mingjun Xiao;Liusheng Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore;Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore;University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China;University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the fourteenth ACM international symposium on Mobile ad hoc networking and computing
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Because data dissemination is crucial to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), its energy-efficiency and reliability are of paramount importance. While achieving these two goals together is highly non-trivial, the situation is exacerbated if WSN nodes are duty-cycled (DC) and their transmission power is adjustable. In this paper, we study the problem of minimizing the expected total transmission power for reliable data dissemination (multicast/broadcast) in DC-WSNs. Due to the NP-hardness of the problem, we design efficient approximation algorithms with provable performance bounds for it.