An Energy-Efficient Cluster-Based Cooperative MIMO Scheme Using Network Coding

Author

Xiong, Zhiqiang ; Chen, Wei ; Cao, Wanhua

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Technol., Wuhan Digital Eng. Res. Inst., Wuhan, China

fYear

2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Wireless Sensor networks (WSNs) require energy-efficient and robust communication protocols. Cooperative MIMO transmission is one of the new solutions. In this paper, we propose an Energy-efficient Cluster-based Cooperative MIMO transmission scheme using Network Coding, termed as ECCM-NC. Network coding algorithm is applied to reduce the energy and time consumption in intra-cluster information exchange procedure. An optimization model is developed to find the optimum cooperative nodes number, clusters number and transmission rates. Simulation shows that tremendous energy saving is possible with application of network coding and judicious choice of designed protocol parameters even considering the local circuit energy cost and STBC training overhead.

Keywords

MIMO communication; cooperative communication; energy conservation; network coding; protocols; space-time block codes; wireless sensor networks; ECCM-NC; STBC training overhead; WSN; cluster number; energy-efficient cluster-based cooperative MIMO transmission scheme; intracluster information exchange procedure; network coding algorithm; optimization model; optimum cooperative node number; robust communication protocol; wireless sensor network; Clustering algorithms; Energy consumption; MIMO; Network coding; Optimization; Sensors; Wireless sensor networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011 7th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

ISSN

2161-9646

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6250-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/wicom.2011.6040074

Filename

6040074