Synchronization of application-driven WSN

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2017

Authors

Marques, B (Author) Other; Manuel Ricardo (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking

Vol. 2017

Final page: 37

ISSN: 1687-1472

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00M-K68

DOI: 10.1186/s13638-017-0821-7

Abstract (EN): The growth of wireless sensor networks (WSN) has resulted in part from requirements for connecting sensors and advances in radio technologies. WSN nodes may be required to save energy and therefore wake up and sleep in a synchronized way. In this paper, we propose an application-driven WSN node synchronization mechanism which, by making use of cross-layer information such as application ID and duty cycle, and by using the exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) technique, enables nodes to wake up and sleep without losing synchronization. The results obtained confirm that this mechanism maintains the nodes in a mesh network synchronized according to the applications they run, while maintaining a high packet reception ratio.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 22