A Light-Weight Opportunistic Forwarding Protocol with Optimized Preamble Length for Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks

doi:10.1007/s11390-017-1712-4

	A Light-Weight Opportunistic Forwarding Protocol with Optimized Preamble Length for Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks
	Chen, Hai-Ming 1; Cui, Li 1; Zhou, Gang 2
	2017
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
ISSN	1000-9000
卷号	32 期号:1 页码:168-180
摘要	In wireless sensor networks, sensed information is expected to be reliably and timely delivered to a sink in an ad-hoc way. However, it is challenging to achieve this goal because of the highly dynamic topology induced from asynchronous duty cycles and temporally and spatially varying link quality among nodes. Currently some opportunistic forwarding protocols have been proposed to address the challenge. However, they involve complicated mechanisms to determine the best forwarder at each hop, which incurs heavy overheads for the resource-constrained nodes. In this paper, we propose a light-weight opportunistic forwarding (LWOF) scheme. Different from other recently proposed opportunistic forwarding schemes, LWOF employs neither historical network information nor a contention process to select a forwarder prior to data transmissions. It confines forwarding candidates to an optimized area, and takes advantage of the preamble in low-power-listening (LPL) MAC protocols and dual-channel communication to forward a packet to a unique downstream node towards the sink with a high probability, without making a forwarding decision prior to data transmission. Under LWOF, we optimize LPL MAC protocol to have a shortened preamble (LWMAC), based on a theoretical analysis on the relationship among preamble length, delivery probability at each hop, node density and sleep duration. Simulation results show that LWOF, along with LWMAC, can achieve relatively good performance in terms of delivery reliability and latency, as a receiver-based opportunistic forwarding protocol, while reducing energy consumption per packet by at least twice.
关键词	wireless sensor network low duty cycle low power listening opportunistic forwarding
DOI	10.1007/s11390-017-1712-4
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	International Science and Technology (S&T) Cooperation Program of China (ISTCP)[2013DFA10690] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61672498] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61303246] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)[61100180]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Software Engineering
WOS记录号	WOS:000392106200014
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
引用统计	被引频次：11[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/7687
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Chen, Hai-Ming
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 2.Coll William & Mary, Dept Comp Sci, Williamsburg, VA 23185 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Chen, Hai-Ming,Cui, Li,Zhou, Gang. A Light-Weight Opportunistic Forwarding Protocol with Optimized Preamble Length for Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks[J]. JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,2017,32(1):168-180.
APA	Chen, Hai-Ming,Cui, Li,&Zhou, Gang.(2017).A Light-Weight Opportunistic Forwarding Protocol with Optimized Preamble Length for Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks.JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,32(1),168-180.
MLA	Chen, Hai-Ming,et al."A Light-Weight Opportunistic Forwarding Protocol with Optimized Preamble Length for Low-Duty-Cycle Wireless Sensor Networks".JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 32.1(2017):168-180.