Quality of service control in proactive wireless sensor networks via lifetime planning Online publication date: Mon, 19-Mar-2018
by Peilin Zhang; Mohamed Abdelaal; Oliver Theel
International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNET), Vol. 26, No. 4, 2018
Abstract: Successful exploitation of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) depends intuitively on the enabling technologies as well as the provision of application-level quality of service (QoS). Current research mostly focuses on maximising the network lifetime without considering the predefined task time. In this paper, we firstly provide a survey of QoS control approaches for WSNs. Subsequently, we propose a novel QoS control method, referred to as lifetime planning. Based on the design-time knowledge, lifetime planning provides users/applications with best-effort QoS, while meeting the required time to complete the assigned task. To this end, an 'upper' and a 'lower' QoS boundary have to be defined for each metric at design-time. During run-time, a self-adaptation framework confines the metrics between these boundaries. We then consider an office monitoring scenario with a cluster-tree topology for performance evaluation. Simulation results in Contiki OS show that lifetime planning tremendously improves the performance while meeting the required lifetime.
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