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Energy usage analysis of digital modulations in wireless sensor networks with realistic battery model

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A wireless sensor network is a collection of tiny sensor nodes that are deployed to monitor a physical environment. These sensor nodes are generally powered by non-renewable batteries and maybe deployed in harsh environment. Thus, energy resource is precious that makes protocols design for this kind of networks a crucial challenge. Especially, in physical layer, orthogonal modulations as PPM or FSK are suitable. The commonly used models to investigate the network lifetime are based on a linear battery discharge. Really, the battery discharge is closely bonded to the discharge current, and typically is non-linear. This paper presents a performance analysis of both PPM and FSK modulations used in battery powered wireless sensor node. A Rakhmatov–Vrudhula–Wallach model is used to evaluate the used battery charge for a given instantaneous current load. By numerical results, it is proved that PPM modulation outperforms FSK one in term of battery charge use for different network density and for different M-ary signaling schemes.

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    Ouadoudi Zytoune

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Zytoune, O., Aboutajdine, D. Energy usage analysis of digital modulations in wireless sensor networks with realistic battery model. Wireless Netw 22, 2713–2725 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-015-1115-9

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