• DocumentCode
    2027312
  • Title

    Power save mechanisms for multi-hop wireless networks

  • Author

    Miller, Matthew J. ; Vaidya, Nitin H.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA
  • fYear
    2004
  • fDate
    25-29 Oct. 2004
  • Firstpage
    518
  • Lastpage
    526
  • Abstract
    In this paper, we discuss power save mechanisms that allow hosts to go to sleep to conserve energy. When sleeping hosts need to receive packets from other hosts, these hosts must somehow wake up the sleeping hosts. The paper discusses a busy-tone mechanism for this purpose, and an approach to improve the mechanism by using multiple busy tones. We generalize this protocol to develop the notion of multi-level power save mechanisms, and present some examples to illustrate this notion.
  • Keywords
    access protocols; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol; busy-tone mechanism; multihop wireless network; power save mechanism; sensor radio; Access protocols; Computer networks; Computer science; Delay; Media Access Protocol; Sensor phenomena and characterization; Space exploration; Spread spectrum communication; Switches; Wireless networks;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Broadband Networks, 2004. BroadNets 2004. Proceedings. First International Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2221-1
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/BROADNETS.2004.67
  • Filename
    1363840