Energy Efficiency of an Unlicensed Wireless Network in the Presence of Retransmissions

TL;DR

This paper investigates the energy efficiency of unlicensed wireless sensor networks with retransmissions, analyzing how retransmission policies, network density, and outage thresholds impact power consumption and overall efficiency.

Contribution

It introduces a model combining Poisson point processes and retransmission strategies to evaluate energy efficiency in unlicensed wireless sensor networks.

Findings

Retransmissions significantly affect energy consumption.

Optimal throughput depends on outage thresholds.

Network density influences energy efficiency levels.

Abstract

This paper analysis the energy efficiency of an unlicensed wireless network in which retransmission is possible if the transmitted message is decoded in outage. A wireless sensor network is considered in which the sensor nodes are unlicensed users of a wireless network which transmit its data in the uplink channel used by the licensed users. Poisson point process is used to model the distributions of the nodes and the interference caused by the licensed users for the sensor nodes. After finding the optimal throughput in the presence of retransmissions, we focus on analyzing the total power consumption and energy efficiency of the network and how retransmissions, network density and outage threshold affects the energy efficiency of the network.