Multi-Hop RFID Wake-Up Radio: Design, Evaluation and Energy Tradeoffs

Abstract—Energy efficiency is a central challenge in batteryoperated sensor networks. Current energy-efficient mechanisms employ either duty cycling, which reduces idle listening but does not eliminate it, or low power wake-up radio, which adds complexity and cost to the sensor platform. In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism called RFIDImpulse that uses RFID technology as an out-of-band wake-up channel for sensor networks. RFIDImpulse is an on-demand mechanism that enables nodes to sleep until they have to send or receive packets. It relies on IEEE 802.15.4 radio to emulate an RFID reader at a sender node, and on an off-the-shelf RFID tag attached to the external interrupt pin of each sensor node. The sender can simply activate the receiver’s tag before sending it data packets. This setup enables both radio and microcontroller to go into deep sleep mode until they need to be active. We develop an analytical model to evaluate the energy tradeoffs of RFIDImpulse, and then eva...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ICCCN
• Authors: Raja Jurdak, Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'Hare
• Keywords: Batteryoperated Sensor Networks, Communications, ICCCN 2008, Sensor, Sensor Networks