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BER-based Power Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks

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In wireless sensor networks, there are many information exchanges between different terminals. In order to guarantee a good level of Quality of Service (QoS), the source node should be smart enough to pick a stable and good quality communication route in order to avoid any unnecessary packet loss. Due to the error-prone links in a wireless network, it is very likely that the transmitted packets over consecutive links may get corrupted or even lost. It is known that retransmissions will increase the overhead in the network, which in turns increase the total energy consumption during data transmission. In this paper, we focus on the Bit Error Rate (BER) during packet transmission and propose a power scheduling scheme to reduce the total energy consumption in the routing. Our approach controls the transmission power of each transmitter to achieve the minimum energy consumption for successful packet transmission. Considering the limited bandwidth resource, we also plan the multihop route while considering the BER and network load at the same time. The simulation results show that our approach can reduce the total energy consumption during data transmission.

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    Senlin Zhang, Zixiang Wang & Meiqin Liu

  2. University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, 40506, USA

    Meikang Qiu

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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61222310, 61174142, 61071061, 61134012, and 60874050, the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants R1100234 and Z1090423, the Program for New Century Excellent Talents (NCET) in University under Grant NCET-10-0692, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant 2011QNA4036, the ASFC under Grant 20102076002, the Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education of China (SRFDP) under Grants 20100101110055 and 20120101110115, the Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Planning Projects of China under Grant 2012C21044, and the Marine Interdisciplinary Research Guiding Funds for Zhejiang University under Grant 2012HY009B. This work was also supported by the 151 Talent Project of Zhejiang Province. Dr. Qiu is supported by NSF CNS-1249223.

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Zhang, S., Wang, Z., Qiu, M. et al. BER-based Power Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks. J Sign Process Syst 72, 197–208 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11265-013-0776-9

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