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Energy Efficient Relay Placement in Dual Hop 802.15.4 Networks

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IEEE 802.15.4 has emerged as a popular standard for short range wireless sensor networks used in industrial, military, health, and environmental sectors. The limited lifetime of such networks is one of the critical design challenges. This paper examines the how relaying through intermediate sensor nodes can enhance the lifetime of an 802.15.4 network. In particular, novel energy consumption models for both AF and DF relays have been developed. Different relay gain scaling mechanisms and forwarding strategies under each of the relay categories were also considered and their energy efficiencies were compared. For every relaying protocol, it was found that there exists an optimum location where energy saving is maximum and this location is not necessarily different for different modes. In summary, it has been observed that the optimum location for AF relays is the equidistant point from source and destination. In contrast, the optimal location for DF relays is closer to source. The effect of different PHY level (outage probability, path loss) and MAC level parameters (frame length) on the energy efficiency are also studied.

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  1. ECE Department, NIT, M. G. Avenue, Durgapur, WB, India

    Aniruddha Chandra, Sankalita Biswas & Nilanjan Biswas

  2. IT Department, FIEM, Kolkata, WB, India

    Biswajit Ghosh

  3. CPGEI, UTFPR, Curitiba, PR, 80230-901, Brazil

    Glauber Brante & Richard Demo Souza

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Chandra, A., Biswas, S., Ghosh, B. et al. Energy Efficient Relay Placement in Dual Hop 802.15.4 Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 75, 1947–1967 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-013-1447-7

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