Energy efficient random sleep-awake schedule design

O. Ocakoglu, O. Ercetin
2006 IEEE Communications Letters  
This letter presents a simple model for determining energy efficient random sleep-awake schedules. Random sleepawake schedules are more appropriate for sensor networks, where the time of occurrence of an event being monitored, e.g., the detection of an intruder, is unknown a priori, and the coordination among nodes is costly. We model the random sleepawake schedule as a two state Markov process, and maximize the probability of the transmission of sensed data by a given deadline. Our results
more » ... cate that for a given duty cycle, the optimal policy is to have infrequent transitions between sleep and awake modes, if the average number of packets sent is greater than the mean number of slots the node is awake. Index Terms-Sensor networks, battery management, energy efficient protocols.
doi:10.1109/lcom.2006.224409 fatcat:tfw3sfexdfdtvcl4qj6zshoeyq