New formulation for scheduling problem in multi-hop wireless sensor networks

Takehiro Furuta, Mihiro Sasaki, Fumio Ishizaki, Takamori Ukai, Hajime Miyazawa, Wonyong Koo

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Abstract

In this paper, we consider a multi-hop sensor network, where the network topology is a tree, TDMA is employed as medium access control, and all data generated at sensor nodes are delivered to a sink node located on the root of the tree through the network. It is reported that if a transmission schedule that avoids interference between sensor nodes completely can be computed, TDMA is preferable to CSMA/CA in performance. However, solving the scheduling problem for TDMA is diffcult, especially, in large-scale multi-hop sensor networks. In this paper, to formulate the scheduling problem for TDMA, we propose min-max model and min-sum model. While the min-max model yields the shortest schedule under the constraints, the min-sum model does not guarantee providing the shortest schedule. Numerical examples show that the min-sum model can provide good schedules in a reasonable CPU time, even when the min-max model fails to compute the shortest schedule in a reasonable CPU time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIWCMC 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
Pages73-78
Number of pages6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Aug 6
Event6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2010 - Caen, France
Duration: 2010 Jun 282010 Jul 2

Publication series

NameIWCMC 2010 - Proceedings of the 6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference

Other

Other6th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference, IWCMC 2010
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityCaen
Period10/6/2810/7/2

Keywords

  • Scheduling
  • Sensor networks
  • TDMA

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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