NDLI: DEPEND: Density adaptive power efficient neighbor discovery for wearable body sensors

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Bin Li Wei Feng Lin Zhang Spanos, C.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electron. Eng., Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China (Bin Li; Wei Feng; Lin Zhang) \|\| Dept. of EECS, Univ. of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA (Spanos, C.)
Abstract	Wearable sensors are designed to monitor the individual user's activities or the social behaviors within a group. Due to the nature of their applications, the wireless transmission of the sensory data are subject to extremely stringent energy constraints. Also, due to user mobility, the network topology is frequently changing. Therefore, the design of efficient communication protocols for wearable sensor networks is technically challenging. As a fundamental building block of the communication protocol, the power-efficient neighbor discovery mechanism is important for the network to function well. We propose an asynchronous neighbor discovery algorithm, namely, DEPEND (Density-based Power Efficient Neighbor Discovery), which requires neither time synchronization nor carrier sensing, and thus is easy to implement on low cost hardware. DEPEND exploits traditional Quorum-based Power-Saving (QPS) scheme, and incorporates an adaptive mechanism to respond to dynamic node density so as to improve and balance the performance of power saving and neighbor discovery. Each DEPEND-enabled network node calculates the local node density and forecasts the probability that new neighbors enter its communication-range in the near future, and adjusts itself to the most suitable QPS mode to discover new neighbors. Analytical and experimental results show that DEPEND is able to improve the neighbor-discovery performance without consuming much more power, thus the discovery performance and the power efficiency are jointly enhanced.
Starting Page	581
Ending Page	586
File Size	245061
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781479915156
ISSN	21618070
DOI	10.1109/CoASE.2013.6653917
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-08-17
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Protocols Delays Wearable sensors Probability Mobile ad hoc networks Network topology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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