Paper Info
Title
An energy-efficient beaconless synchronization mechanism for Smart Utility Networks operating in TV white space
Abstract
This paper proposes an energy-efficient beaconless synchronization mechanism for SUN operating in the TVWS. From the aspects of fulfilling the pervasive yet stringent requirements of low-energy wireless meters and TVWS regulations, the proposed mechanism is able to prolong battery lifespan beyond the required level for wireless smart meters, and is compliant to the specific network architecture and communication protocols demanded by the TVWS rules. In the MAC layer, a novel design for low duty cycle beaconless synchronization/data exchange is specified. In the PHY layer, the transceiver and realistic channel models applicable to the IEEE 802.15.4g SUN is constructed. Actual data from chip vendors of the wireless meter industry are also included to facilitate a more practical investigation. All the above are combined for performance evaluation to quantify the energy-efficiency and error performance of the proposed mechanism. As a result, it is found that the proposed mechanism enables battery lifespan of more than 10 years in most typical cases. For the system to achieve a ten-year battery lifespan at data transmission interval of 15 minutes, it is recommended that the system duty factor to be controlled in the order of 10-4, and that transmitted data frames to be limited within the length of 50 octets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/ICC.2012.6364081
ICC
Keywords
Field
DocType
tvws regulations,beaconless synchronization,ieee 802.15.4g,phy layer,mac layer,data exchange,television broadcasting,ieee 802.15.4g sun,tv white space,communication protocols,power meters,low duty cycle beaconless synchronization,wireless smart meters,wireless meter industry,time 15 min,low-energy wireless meters,energy efficiency,zigbee,radio transceivers,battery lifespan,system duty factor,access protocols,transceiver,smart utility networks,realistic channel models,network architecture,synchronisation,energy-efficient beaconless synchronization mechanism,synchronization,wireless communication,sun,tv,wireless sensor networks
Synchronization,White spaces,Wireless,Data transmission,Efficient energy use,Computer science,Network architecture,Computer network,Real-time computing,Physical layer,Communications protocol
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-3607 E-ISBN : 978-1-4577-2051-2
978-1-4577-2051-2
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chin-sean Sum148252.89
Liru Lu2639.52
Fumihide Kojima323956.25
Hiroshi Harada447677.46