Title
Survey and Taxonomy of Duty Cycling Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks
Abstract
Motivated by stringent power constraints, duty cycling - the practice of turning a mote's radio on and off to conserve energy - has become a fundamental mechanism in the design of Wireless Sensor Networks. Because of its importance, a variety of approaches to duty cycling have emerged during the last decade and are being now proposed with increasingly ambitious goals, such as achieving ultra low duty cycles as low as 0.1%. Such propositions differ mostly in their reliance on nodes' synchronization, which, in turn, translates into different hardware requirements and implementation complexity. However, duty cycling may also differ in other aspects as topology dependency, network density requirements and increase in end-to-end delay. This paper organizes the most important proposals into a taxonomy and provides insights into their strengths and weaknesses in relation to important characteristics of applications, mote's hardware and network deployments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/SURV.2013.052213.00116
Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE  
Keywords
Field
DocType
sensor placement,telecommunication power management,wireless sensor networks,duty cycling mechanisms,end-to-end delay,energy conservation,hardware complexity,mote radio,network density requirements,network deployment,nodes synchronization,power constraints,topology dependency,wireless sensor networks,Energy efficiency,Wireless communications,Wireless sensor networks
Sensor node,Duty,Wireless network,Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,Synchronization,Telecommunications,Computer science,Computer network,Mobile wireless sensor network,Wireless sensor network,Strengths and weaknesses
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
1
1553-877X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
58
1.62
46
Authors
5