2nd International ICST Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Communications and Networking

Research Article

A Power Allocation Method with Maximum Effective Configuration Duration in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769040,
        author={Changqing Yang and Wenbo Wang and Guangxiang Yuan and Mugen Peng},
        title={A Power Allocation Method with Maximum Effective Configuration Duration in Wireless Sensor Networks},
        proceedings={2nd International ICST Workshop on Cooperative Wireless Communications and Networking},
        publisher={IEEE},
        proceedings_a={CONET},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Cooperative; power allocation; Rayleigh fading; signaling overhead},
        doi={10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769040}
    }
    
  • Changqing Yang
    Wenbo Wang
    Guangxiang Yuan
    Mugen Peng
    Year: 2010
    A Power Allocation Method with Maximum Effective Configuration Duration in Wireless Sensor Networks
    CONET
    IEEE
    DOI: 10.1109/BROADNETS.2008.4769040
Changqing Yang1,*, Wenbo Wang1,*, Guangxiang Yuan1,*, Mugen Peng1,*
  • 1: Wireless Signal Processing and Network Lab Key Laboratory of Universal Wireless Communication, Ministry of Education Beijing University of Posts & Telecommunications, Beijing, China
*Contact email: LIONYCQ@HOTMAIL.COM, wbwang@bupt.edu.cn, gxyuan@gmail.com, pmg@bupt.edu.cn

Abstract

This paper investigates a simple and effective power allocation method to maximize the Effective Configuration Duration(ECD) in wireless sensor networks, which aims to minimize the signaling overhead needed to perform relay nodes selection, Cooperative Set update and power allocation, resulting in obvious power saving and lifetime extension. Compared with traditional allocation schemes, this method jointly considers the residual energy of sensors and the mean of channel power gains, thus limits the feedback burden and increases the topology stability. Two classical power allocation methods are evaluated for comparison, and numerical results show that the proposed scheme can significantly extend ECD over a wide range of parameter values.