A Simple Battery Aware Gossip Based Sleep Protocol for Densely Deployed Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces a simple gossip-based sleep protocol for sensor networks that makes nodes battery aware, allowing low battery nodes to sleep more and thereby extending the network's lifetime.

Contribution

It proposes a novel battery-aware gossip protocol that enhances power conservation by adjusting sleep schedules based on node battery levels.

Findings

Reduces power consumption in sensor networks

Extends network lifetime through battery-aware sleep scheduling

Maintains low implementation complexity

Abstract

Conserving power in mobile ad-hoc and sensor networks is a big challenge. Most of the nodes in these networks, in general, are battery powered, therefore, an efficient power saving protocol is required to extend the lifetime of such networks. A lot of work has been done and several protocols have been proposed to address this problem. Gossip based protocols, which are based on the results of percolation theory, significantly reduce power consumption with very little implementation overhead. However, not much work has been done to make gossiping battery aware. In this paper we introduce a simple gossip based battery aware sleep protocol. The protocol allows low battery nodes to sleep more, therefore, improves overall network lifetime.