User-centric radio power control for opportunistic mountain hiking networks

bstract: User-Centric Radio Power Control for Opportunistic Mountain Hiking Networks ∗ Jyh-How Huang1 , Po-Yen Lin1 , Yu-Te Huang2 , Seng-Yong Lau1 , Ling-Jyh Chen2 , Kun-chan Lan3 , Hao-hua Chu1 , and Polly Huang1 1 National Taiwan University, Taiwan 2 Academia Sinica, Taiwan 3 National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Saving DTNs’ battery power to prolong the system life time has been an important research topic which scientists try to optimize. Most researches fall into two categories - Time Division Multiple Access based ones, and Low Power Listening ones by turning the listener’s radio on/off intermittenly with long sending preambles. In this paper we propose solving the problem from a whole new angle - by using the motes’ physical behavior, which is detectable by relatively energy-cheap accelerometer, as the judgment for turning the radio on/off. This scheme can be used in combination with any energy efficient DTN MAC protocols. We evaluate the protocol by running simulati...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: IPSN
• Authors: Jyh-How Huang, Po-Yen Lin, Yu-Te Huang, Seng-Yong Lau, Ling-Jyh Chen, Kun-Chan Lan, Hao-Hua Chu, Polly Huang
• Keywords: IPSN 2010, National Cheng Kung University, Power Control, Sensor Networks, User-Centric Radio Power