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Towards fast and energy-efficient dissemination via opportunistic broadcasting in wireless sensor networks

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Abstract

Broadcasting in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is a basic operation to control the entire network. However, traditional broadcasting is not appropriate for WSNs with a low-duty-cycle; it is devised for an energy-limited environment, where nodes stay asleep much of the time and wake up only for a short time. Duty-cycled broadcasting methods, such as the opportunistic flooding (OF) scheme, have been studied to reduce the flooding delay. However, OF suffers a problem of energy unbalanced consumption, incurring early network disconnection. In this paper, we modify OF to decrease the broadcast delay and prolong the network lifetime, through acquiring more candidates for senders and considering the remaining energy of nodes. Simulation shows our scheme achieves shorter delay and longer network lifetime than OF (i.e., decrease by up to about 60% and increase by up to about 100%, respectively).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011 - International Conference, Proceedings
Pages173-184
Number of pages12
EditionPART 4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event2011 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011 - Santander, Spain
Duration: 20 Jun 201123 Jun 2011

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
NumberPART 4
Volume6785 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference2011 International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2011
Country/TerritorySpain
CitySantander
Period20/06/1123/06/11

Keywords

  • Broadcasting
  • Energy-efficient
  • Fast dissemination
  • Lifetime
  • Opportunistic
  • Remaining energy

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