Improvement of counter-based broadcasting scheme for long communicating material lifetime

Kais Mekki (1, 2) , William Derigent (1) , Ahmed Zouinkhi (2) , Eric Rondeau (1) , Mohamed Naceur Abdelkrim (2)

1 CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy
2 MACS ENIG

The communicating material is a new paradigm of Internet of Things. It is designed to perform efficient product control and ensure an information continuum all along the product life cycle. Communicating material is obtained by scattering a huge amount of microelectronic components such as sensor nodes. However, a critical aspect of application with wireless sensor networks is nodes lifetime. The major part of energy consumption is caused by communication module, therefore judicious power management and scheduling can effectively extend operational time. In this paper, the counter based broadcasting scheme is focused on and a random delay extension is proposed to improve the wireless sensor network lifetime for communicating material application. The extension need neither additional hardware nor extra overhead, so that the strength of the original counter based algorithm is maintained. Simulation results using Castalia/OMNeT++ showed that our delay extension can reduce the number of retransmitting nodes by about 10% and hence improve the material lifetime compared with the original scheme.

Mots clés: wireless sensor network; communicating material; counter-based flooding; energy efficiency; network lifetime

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Kais Mekki, William Derigent, Ahmed Zouinkhi, Eric Rondeau, Mohamed Naceur Abdelkrim. Improvement of counter-based broadcasting scheme for long communicating material lifetime. International Conference on Automation, Control, Engineering & Computer Science, ACECS’2014, Mar 2014, Monastir, Tunisia. ⟨hal-01081936⟩