TY - GEN
T1 - Dynamic framed-ALOHA for energy-constrained wireless sensor networks with energy harvesting
AU - Iannello, Fabio
AU - Simeone, Osvaldo
AU - Spagnolini, Umberto
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The Dynamic Framed-ALOHA (DFA) protocol is studied for wireless sensor networks with energy limitations and energy-harvesting capability. The performance of DFA in this scenario is evaluated in terms of the time efficiency (or throughput), which is routinely used to evaluate medium access protocols, and by introducing a new metric, referred to as detection efficiency, which is tailored to scenarios with energy constraints. Specifically, detection efficiency measures the ability of a multiple access protocol to collect data from nodes without depleting their energy reserves. Analysis is first performed by assuming that DFA is operated with a perfect backlog (i.e., number of sensors left to be interrogated) knowledge. Then, a low-complexity backlog estimation algorithm is presented, which is shown by numerical results to perform close to the ideal case of perfect backlog knowledge.
AB - The Dynamic Framed-ALOHA (DFA) protocol is studied for wireless sensor networks with energy limitations and energy-harvesting capability. The performance of DFA in this scenario is evaluated in terms of the time efficiency (or throughput), which is routinely used to evaluate medium access protocols, and by introducing a new metric, referred to as detection efficiency, which is tailored to scenarios with energy constraints. Specifically, detection efficiency measures the ability of a multiple access protocol to collect data from nodes without depleting their energy reserves. Analysis is first performed by assuming that DFA is operated with a perfect backlog (i.e., number of sensors left to be interrogated) knowledge. Then, a low-complexity backlog estimation algorithm is presented, which is shown by numerical results to perform close to the ideal case of perfect backlog knowledge.
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U2 - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5683738
DO - 10.1109/GLOCOM.2010.5683738
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79551618219
SN - 9781424456383
T3 - GLOBECOM - IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference
BT - 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 53rd IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2010
Y2 - 6 December 2010 through 10 December 2010
ER -