Performance Analysis and Optimization for Energy-Efficient Cooperative Transmission in Random Wireless Sensor Network
Bin Li, Hongxiang Li, Wenjie Wang, Qinye Yin, Hui Liu · IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications · 2013
This paper considers random wireless sensor networks where nodes are distributed randomly and form clusters to transmit the packets to relay clusters using cooperative multi-input-multi-output (CMIMO) technique. First, we study CMIMO energy consumption and divide it into intra-cluster energy consumption and inter-cluster energy consumption. Then we focus on analyzing the system performance in terms of overall packet error rate (PER) and energy consumption. Based on system performance metrics, we propose a new node sleep strategy, where overall energy consumption is minimized by coordinating inter-cluster transmitting energy consumption and the number of sensor nodes in activation. Compared to existing works, our contributions are (1) we consider random distribution of nodes and get a closed-form expression of overall PER that simplifies the energy minimization problem; (2) we analyze the tradeoff between overall energy consumption and nodes active rate. In simulation, we investigate the relationships among nodes active rate, inter-cluster transmitting energy consumption and the overall energy consumption. Furthermore, we discuss how these parameters are affected by the nodes density, the inter-cluster transmitting distance, the cluster radius and the intra-cluster energy consumption. Finally, we validate that the proposed nodes sleep strategy has significant energy savings compared with non-sleep cooperative transmission and direct transmission.