An energy-efficient adaptive modulation suitable for wireless sensor networks with SER and throughput constraints

  • Authors:
  • J. Joaquí Escudero Garzás;Carlos Bousoñ Calzón;Ana García Armada

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganés Madrid, Spain;Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganés Madrid, Spain;Department of Signal Theory and Communications, University Carlos III of Madrid, Leganés Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We consider the problem of minimizing transmission energy in wireless sensor networks by taking into account that every sensor may require a different bit rate and reliability according to its particular application. We propose a cross-layer approach to tackle such a minimization in centralized networks for the total transmission energy consumption of the network: in the physical layer, for each sensor the sink estimates the channel gain and adaptively selects a modulation scheme; in the MAC layer, each sensor is correspondingly assigned a number of time slots. The modulation level and the number of allocated time slots for every sensor are constrained to attain their applications bit rates in a global energy-efficient manner. The signal-to-noise ratio gap approximation is used in our exposition in order to jointly handle required bit rates, transmission energies, and symbol error rates.