EasiPC: a packet compression mechanism for embedded WSN

Author

Ju, Hailing ; Cui, Li

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2005

fDate

17-19 Aug. 2005

Firstpage

394

Lastpage

399

Abstract

Wireless sensor network (WSN) has many promising applications. One of the most challenging technical issues for sensor network design is to enable ultra low power consumption communication. In this paper we propose a packet compression mechanism, namely EasiPC, as a new power management technique for WSN with this mechanism, the lengths of data packets are shortened significantly due to the effective reduction of redundant information. As a consequence the energy required for transporting packets is saved too. Experiments carried out on WSN platform developed in-house show that this packet compression mechanism is both feasible and effective. Additional benefits introduced by this packet compression mechanism include reduced transmission delays, reduced channel accessing collisions, as well as enhanced channel utilization.

Keywords

computer networks; data compression; embedded systems; packet switching; telecommunication power supplies; wireless sensor networks; EasiPC; embedded wireless sensor network; packet compression; power management; ultra low power consumption communication; Computers; Delay; Energy consumption; Energy management; Internet; Protocols; Surges; TCPIP; Telecommunication traffic; Wireless sensor networks; packet compression; power management; wireless sensor network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, 2005. Proceedings. 11th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1533-2306

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2346-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTCSA.2005.40

Filename

1541114