Energy-Efficient Data Gathering Scheme Based on Broadcast Transmissions in Wireless Sensor Networks. (24th August 2013)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lee, Soobin; Lee, Howon
• Other Names: Kanatas A. Academic Editor.; Li J. Academic Editor.
• Is Part Of: TheScientificWorldjournal. Volume 2013(2013)
• Publication Date: 2013-08-24
• Subjects: Science -- Periodicals; Technology -- Periodicals; Medicine -- Periodicals; 505
• DOI: 10.1155/2013/402930
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2356-6140

Abstract

Abstract : Improving energy efficiency is the most important challenge in wireless sensor networks. Because sensing information is correlated in many sensor network applications, some previous works have proposed ideas that reduce the energy consumption of the network by exploiting the spatial correlation between sensed information. In this paper, we propose a distributed data compression framework that exploits the broadcasting characteristic of the wireless medium to improve energy efficiency. We analyze the performance of the proposed framework numerically and compare it with the performance of previous works using simulation. The proposed scheme performs better when the sensing information is correlated.