Communication Timing Control based on Coupled-Phase Dynamics Coordination

This paper describes a fully distributed communication timing control method for wireless sensor networks, which exploits the properties of the emergent behavior of coupled phase oscillatory dynamics. Assuming the periodic data communications in massively distributed and locally interacting sensor nodes, a phase oscillatory dynamics is employed to realize a collision free communication timing control. For this purpose, we propose Phase Diffusion Synch- Alliance (PDSA) method, where coordination in repulsive and synchronous actions in the phase dynamics will take an essential role to self-organize a phase difference pattern corresponding to an efficient communication timing pattern in the distributed sensor nodes. We formulate the method and conduct simulations to verify effectiveness of PDSA.