Variable-base tacit communication: a new energy efficient communication scheme for sensor networks

Yuanzhu Peter  Chen; Dan  Wang; Jian  Zhang

1st International ICST Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Research Article

Variable-base tacit communication: a new energy efficient communication scheme for sensor networks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1145/1142680.1142715,
    author={Yuanzhu Peter  Chen and Dan  Wang and Jian  Zhang},
    title={Variable-base tacit communication: a new energy efficient communication scheme for sensor networks},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Conference on Integrated Internet Ad hoc and Sensor Networks},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={INTERSENSE},
    year={2006},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1145/1142680.1142715}
}

Yuanzhu Peter Chen
Dan Wang
Jian Zhang
Year: 2006
Variable-base tacit communication: a new energy efficient communication scheme for sensor networks
INTERSENSE
ACM
DOI: 10.1145/1142680.1142715

Yuanzhu Peter Chen¹^,*, Dan Wang²^,*, Jian Zhang³^,*

1: Department of Computer Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, A1B3X5, Canada
2: School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, V5A1S6, Canada
3: Center for Advanced Information Processing, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, U.S.A.

*Contact email: yzchen@cs.mun.ca, danw@cs.sfu.ca, jianz@caip.rutgers.edu

Abstract

Energy conservation is a major concern in wireless sensor networking. Conventionally in wireless communications, each bit transmitted by a node consumes one unit of energy. Some recent advances, however, explore silent time intervals between signal transmissions to convey information (Zhu and Sivakumar [1]). Such a scheme of Communication through Silence (CtS), while reducing energy consumption for sensor nodes, introduces long delay. In this paper, we propose Variable-Base Tacit Communication (VarBaTaC) to mitigate the delay introduced by CtS. We also develop three MAC protocols based on VarBaTaC for different environments. We then outline experiment designs for further investigations and point out some interesting future research directions.

Published: 2006-05-31
Publisher: ACM

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1142680.1142715