Silence is golden and time is money: power-aware communication for sensor networks
Christina Fragouli, Alon Orlitsky · 2005
We propose protocols for energy-efficient communication over wireless sensor net-works based on the use of silence as a means of conveying information. That is, information is inferred by the fact that nodes remain silent. We investigate the time-complexity trade-off such protocols offer, in a communication-complexity framework. We focus our attention on symmetric functions, that include most statistical functions and functions of interest for sensor networks. 1