Title
On the Delay Performance in a Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Network: Measurement, Analysis, and Implications
Abstract
We present a comprehensive delay performance measurement and analysis in a large-scale wireless sensor network. We build a lightweight delay measurement system and present a robust method to calculate the per-packet delay. We show that the method can identify incorrect delays and recover them with a bounded error. Through analysis of delay and other system metrics, we seek to answer the following fundamental questions: What are the spatial and temporal characteristics of delay performance in a real network? What are the most important impacting factors, and is there any practical model to capture those factors? What are the implications to protocol designs? In this paper, we identify important factors from the data trace and show that the important factors are not necessarily the same with those in the Internet. Furthermore, we propose a delay model to capture those factors. We revisit several prevalent protocol designs such as Collection Tree Protocol, opportunistic routing, and Dynamic Switching-based Forwarding and show that our model and analysis are useful to practical protocol designs.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/TNET.2013.2296331
IEEE/ACM Trans. Netw.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Delays,Clocks,Wireless sensor networks,Protocols,Synchronization
Key distribution in wireless sensor networks,End-to-end delay,Network delay,Synchronization,Computer science,Transmission delay,Computer network,Real-time computing,Collection Tree Protocol,Wireless sensor network,Processing delay,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
23
1
1063-6692
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.52
34
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiliang Wang156443.33
Wei Dong266063.48
Zhichao Cao317223.04
Yunhao Liu48810486.66