Distributed Power and Topology Control for IR-UWB Sensor Networks

Authors

D. Bielefeld, R. Mathar,

Abstract

        To extend the lifetime of wireless sensor networks a power-aware design of the communication units is required. This can be accomplished by employing power-controllable impulse radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) transceivers. In this paper, two distributed power control algorithms are suggested that are based on a variation of IR-UWB specific parameters. The iterative algorithms converge to the optimal transmit power levels for all nodes of a given network topology. The global transmission power can be further reduced by the construction of a network hierarchy. For this purpose a topology control algorithm is proposed that can be combined with the power control procedures. This combination realises an efficient application specific multiple access scheme for IR-UWB sensor networks.

BibTEX Reference Entry 

@inproceedings{BiMa08,
	author = {Daniel Bielefeld and Rudolf Mathar},
	title = "Distributed Power and Topology Control for {IR-UWB} Sensor Networks",
	booktitle = "{IEEE} ISWCS",
	address = {Reykjavik, Iceland},
	month = Oct,
	year = 2008,
	hsb = RWTH-CONV-223581,
	}

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