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Network-Harmonized Scheduling for Multi-Application Sensor Networks
Ref: CISTER-TR-140415       Publication Date: 20 to 22, Aug, 2014

Abstract:
The support for multiple concurrent applications is an important enabler for promoting the use of sensor networks as an infrastructure technology, where multiple users can deploy their applications independently. In such a scenario, different applications on a node may transmit packets at distinct periods, causing the node to change from sleep to active state more often, which negatively impacts the energy consumption of the whole network. In this paper, we propose to batch the transmissions together by defining a harmonizing period to align the trans- missions from multiple applications at periodic boundaries. This harmonizing period is then leveraged to design a protocol that coordinates the transmissions across nodes and provides real-time guarantees in a multi-hop network. This protocol, which we call Network-Harmonized Scheduling (NHS), takes advantage of the periodicity introduced to assign offsets to nodes at different hop- levels such that collisions are always avoided, and deterministic behavior is enforced. NHS is a light-weight and distributed pro- tocol that does not require any global state-keeping mechanism. We implemented NHS for the Contiki operating system and show that it can achieve comparable duty-cycle to an ideal TDMA approach.

Vikram Gupta

,

Nuno Pereira

,

Shashank Gaur

,

Eduardo Tovar

,

Raj Rajkumar

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