This paper presents a 220-GHz-band 7-m wireless link with a 45-Gbps transmission data rate by using 16 quadrature amplitude modulation(16-QAM).Super-heterodyne transceiver modules are developed for transmission and re...This paper presents a 220-GHz-band 7-m wireless link with a 45-Gbps transmission data rate by using 16 quadrature amplitude modulation(16-QAM).Super-heterodyne transceiver modules are developed for transmission and reception of the modulated signals,which consist of a Schottky barrier diodes(SBD)based sub-harmonic mixer(SHM),an InP HEMT low noise amplifier(LNA),a waveguide band-pass filter(BPF),and a 108-GHz local oscillator(LO)multiplier chain.The transmitter features a peak transmit power of 1.41 dBm,and the IF frequency varies from 5 GHz to 20 GHz.Besides,the receiver features a conversion gain of 9.3 dB in average and a noise temperature of 3052.8 K.The measured results indicate that the transceiver modules enable data transmission of a 45-Gbps 16-QAM signal with Signal-Noise-Ratio(SNR)from 11.59 dB to 15.36 dB in a 7-m line-of-sight channel.展开更多
It is of great importance to control flexibly wireless links in the modern society,especially with the advent of the Internet of Things(IoT),fifth-generation communication(5G),and beyond.Recently,we have witnessed tha...It is of great importance to control flexibly wireless links in the modern society,especially with the advent of the Internet of Things(IoT),fifth-generation communication(5G),and beyond.Recently,we have witnessed that programmable metasurface(PM)or reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)has become a key enabling technology for manipulating flexibly the wireless link;however,one fundamental but challenging issue is to online design the PM's control sequence in a complicated wireless environment,such as the real-world indoor environment.Here,we propose a reinforcement learning(RL)approach to online control of the PM and thus in-situ improve the quality of the underline wireless link.We designed an inexpensive one-bit PM working at around 2.442 GHz and developed associated RL algorithms,and demonstrated experimentally that it is capable of enhancing the quality of commodity wireless link by a factor of about 10 dB and beyond in multiple scenarios,even if the wireless transmitter is in the glancing angle of the PM in the realworld indoor environment.Moreover,we also prove that our RL algorithm can be extended to improve the wireless signals of receivers in dual-receiver scenario.We faithfully expect that the presented technique could hold important potentials in future wireless communication,smart homes,and many other fields.展开更多
Test results for a 10-Gbps prototype demonstrator working at 71~76 GHz frequency band with a 2-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency are reported.To overcome the speed limitation of the commercial DA/ADs,a two-channel analog I...Test results for a 10-Gbps prototype demonstrator working at 71~76 GHz frequency band with a 2-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency are reported.To overcome the speed limitation of the commercial DA/ADs,a two-channel analog IF multiplexing and demultiplexing topology is adopted as a trade-off between cost and spectrum efficiency.The same approach is also used to achieve up to 20 Gbps with a full 10-GHz bandwidth of the allocated commercial bands(71~76 GHz and 81~86 GHz).展开更多
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many potential applications [1,2] and unique challenges. They usually consist of hundreds or thousands of small sensor nodes such as MICA2, which operate autonomously;conditions su...Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many potential applications [1,2] and unique challenges. They usually consist of hundreds or thousands of small sensor nodes such as MICA2, which operate autonomously;conditions such as cost, invisible deployment and many application domains, lead to small size and resource limited sensors [3]. WSNs are susceptible to many types of link layer attacks [1] and most of traditional network security techniques are unusable on WSNs [3];This is due to wireless and shared nature of communication channel, untrusted transmissions, deployment in open environments, unattended nature and limited resources [1]. Therefore security is a vital requirement for these networks;but we have to design a proper security mechanism that attends to WSN’s constraints and requirements. In this paper, we focus on security of WSNs, divide it (the WSNs security) into four categories and will consider them, include: an overview of WSNs, security in WSNs, the threat model on WSNs, a wide variety of WSNs’ link layer attacks and a comparison of them. This work enables us to identify the purpose and capabilities of the attackers;furthermore, the goal and effects of the link layer attacks on WSNs are introduced. Also, this paper discusses known approaches of security detection and defensive mechanisms against the link layer attacks;this would enable IT security managers to manage the link layer attacks of WSNs more effectively.展开更多
This paper presents a creative wireless LAN (WLAN) bridging solution, concentrating on the overall realization of a well designed interconnection. This solution integrates effective traffic insulation, intended access...This paper presents a creative wireless LAN (WLAN) bridging solution, concentrating on the overall realization of a well designed interconnection. This solution integrates effective traffic insulation, intended access control, and required address translation without interfering with the vested interest of internet service provider (ISP). The specific solution can be widely applied on the campus-dorm (off campus)-ISP internetworking mode, where it is hard to implement wired link between campus network and dorm network in terms of cost and existing environmental constraints.展开更多
This study proposes an efficient secure routing protocol which considers symmetric and asymmetric links for wireless mesh networks(WMNs). A wireless mesh network is a group of wireless mesh routers and several kinds o...This study proposes an efficient secure routing protocol which considers symmetric and asymmetric links for wireless mesh networks(WMNs). A wireless mesh network is a group of wireless mesh routers and several kinds of wireless devices(or nodes). Individual node cooperates by forwarding packets to each other,allowing nodes to communicate beyond the symmetric or asymmetric links. Asymmetric link is a special feature of WMNs because the wireless transmission ranges of different wireless devices may be different. The asymmetric link enhances WMN coverage. Providing security in WMNs has become an important issue over the last few years. Existing research on this topic tends to focus on providing security for routing and data content in the symmetric link. However, most studies overlook the asymmetric link in these networks. This study proposes a novel distributed routing protocol beyond symmetric and asymmetric links, to guarantee the security and high reliability of the established route in a hostile environment, such as WMNs, by avoiding the use of unreliable intermediate nodes. The routes generated by the proposed protocol are shorter than those in prior works. The major objective of the proposed protocol is to allow trustworthy intermediate nodes to participate in the path construction protocol. The mesh clients out of mesh router wireless transmission range may discover a secure route to securely connect to the mesh router for Internet access via the proposed protocol. The proposed protocol enhances wireless mesh network coverage and assures security.展开更多
Accurate link quality estimation is a fundamental building block in quality aware multi hop routing. In an inherently lossy, unreliable and dynamic medium such as wireless, the task of accurate estimation becomes very...Accurate link quality estimation is a fundamental building block in quality aware multi hop routing. In an inherently lossy, unreliable and dynamic medium such as wireless, the task of accurate estimation becomes very challenging. Over the years ETX has been widely used as a reliable link quality estimation metric. However, more recently it has been established that under heavy traffic loads ETX performance gets significantly worse. We examine the ETX metric's behavior in detail with respect to the MAC layer and UDP data; and identify the causes of its unreliability. Motivated by the observations made in our analysis, we present the design and implementation of our link quality measurement metric xDDR - a variation of ETX. This article extends xDDR to support network mobility. Our experiments show that xDDR substantially outperforms minimum hop count, ETX and HETX in terms of end-to-end packet delivery ratio in static as well as mobile scenarios.展开更多
We present a problem for benchmarking the robustness of cellular up-links, in an automatic weather station (AWS) testbed. Based on the problem, we conduct a small-scale measurement study of robustness, where the AWS i...We present a problem for benchmarking the robustness of cellular up-links, in an automatic weather station (AWS) testbed. Based on the problem, we conduct a small-scale measurement study of robustness, where the AWS is equipped with four (4) cellular modems for weather data delivery. The effectiveness of up-links is challenging because of overlapping spatial-temporal factors such as the presence of good reflectors that lead to multi-path effects, interference, network load or other reasons. We argue that, there is a strong need for independent assessments of their robustness, to perform end-to-end network measurement. However, it is yet difficult to go from a particular measurement to an assessment of the entire network. We extensively measure the variability of Radio Signal Strength (RSSI) as link metric on the cellular modems. The RSSI is one of the important link metrics that can determine the robustness of received RF signals, and explore how they differed from one another at a particular location and instant time. We also apply the statistical analysis that quantifies the level of stability by considering the robustness, referring short-term variation, and determines good up-link in comparison to weak one. The results show that the robustness of cellular up-links exists for an unpredictable period of time and lower than one could hope. More than 50% of up-links are intermittent. Therefore, we plan to extend our work by exploring RSSI thresholds, to develop a classification scheme supporting a decision whether a link is either intermittent or not. This will help in normalizing the level of stability, to design the RSSI estimation metric for the robust routing protocol in weather data networks.展开更多
With the rapid evolution of WSNs technology, it is very important to evaluate link quality quickly and accurately, so that the routing protocols can take relevant strategies in time to keep the entire network working ...With the rapid evolution of WSNs technology, it is very important to evaluate link quality quickly and accurately, so that the routing protocols can take relevant strategies in time to keep the entire network working steadily and efficiently. However, the issue of layer is still open to research. To tackle this issue, a improving link quality assessment methods on physical novel link quality assessment metric called S3LQA is proposed, which estimates the link quality of wireless sensor networks by CC2420 wireless radio frequency transceiver principles and free space propagation theory. The metric adopts both complete and incomplete packages to improve the evaluation performance effectively based on IEEE802. 15.4 frame format and DSSS-O- QPSK mechanism. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve energy cost and achieves hatter real-timin nerformance than traditional counting-based (PRR) link aualitv assessment metric.展开更多
Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) such as IEEE 802.11a/g and Hiperlan/2 utilise numerous transmission modes, each providing different throughputs and reliability levels. Many link adaptation algorithms proposed in ...Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) such as IEEE 802.11a/g and Hiperlan/2 utilise numerous transmission modes, each providing different throughputs and reliability levels. Many link adaptation algorithms proposed in the literature either maximise the error-free data throughput based on channel conditions or are based on the number of failed transmissions. However, these algo- rithms do not take into account the content of the data stream and strongly rely on the use of Automatic Repeat Requests (ARQs). Low latency video applications such as real-time video transmission may require no retransmission, or only a limited number of retrans- missions. Moreover, completely error-free communication is not essential, especially if robust video compression techniques are applied. In such scenarios, improved decoded video quality can be obtained with a video stream transmitted at a higher bit rate using a higher link speed but with some degree of transmission error, rather than an error-free video stream at a lower bit rate using a lower link speed. In this work, we investigate a link adaptation scheme that improves the Quality of Service (QoS) for video transmission, based on the overall received video quality (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, PSNR), rather than by maximising the error-free throughput. We also study a practical link adaptation approach that uses PER thresholds at the PHY layer. An empirical study showed that thresholds for switching from one mode to another are much lower (almost error free) than those currently used by throughput based schemes. We show that traditional link adaptation strategies are not appropriate for real-time video transmission with no retransmis- sion. Simulation results using the H.264 video compression standard over IEEE 802.11a are presented.展开更多
Control systems are being changed from wired to wireless communications because of flexibility, mobility and extensibility of wireless communication systems;however the reliability of wireless communications is suspec...Control systems are being changed from wired to wireless communications because of flexibility, mobility and extensibility of wireless communication systems;however the reliability of wireless communications is suspected. In this paper, we propose cooperative communication scheme for wireless control systems which consist of a controller and multiple machines;these machines cooperatively work in a group and for the same duty. In the proposed method, the controller can communicate with machines directly or via other machines, whereas in the conventional method, the controller only communicates with machines directly. The simple 2-link arm plant is used to evaluate our proposed system, and the simulation results indicate that the proposed method is more accurate, and more stable than the conventional method.展开更多
Wireless power transfer via inductive link is becoming a popular choice as an alternate powering scheme for biomedical sensor electronics. Spiral printed circuit board (PCB) inductors are gaining attractions for wirel...Wireless power transfer via inductive link is becoming a popular choice as an alternate powering scheme for biomedical sensor electronics. Spiral printed circuit board (PCB) inductors are gaining attractions for wireless power transfer applications due to their various advantages over conventional inductors such as low-cost, batch fabrication, durability, manufacturability on flexible substrates, etc. In this work, design of a multi-spiral stacked solenoidal inductor for biomedical application in 13.56 MHz band is presented. Proposed stacking method enhances the inductance density of the inductor for a given area. This paper reports an optimization technique for design and implementation of the PCB inductors. The proposed scheme shows higher inductance and better figure-of-merit values compared to PCB inductors reported in literature, which are desirable for wireless power transfer system.展开更多
Quorum System is a good method to assist the design of sensors of the wake-up scheduling mechanism. However, there are some problems about idle rendezvous and poor link quality when the sensor performs a sensing task ...Quorum System is a good method to assist the design of sensors of the wake-up scheduling mechanism. However, there are some problems about idle rendezvous and poor link quality when the sensor performs a sensing task according to the Quorum System. In order to improve the efficiency of the sensors and reduce energy consumption, a new rendezvous mechanism is proposed. The use of energy and the link quality between sensors are considered from a global perspective. It can not only ensure the rendezvous opportunity among sensors, but also balance the residual energy of the sensors, so it can improve the energy-saving efficiency of traditional Quorum System. According to the simulation, compared with the traditional Quorum System scheduling mechanism, the rendezvous mechanism proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the number of time-slots when the sensor is idle. Moreover, it also realizes the balance of the residual energy of the sensor and the link quality, which prolongs the life cycle of the wireless sensor network and improves the communication quality.展开更多
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61871072).
文摘This paper presents a 220-GHz-band 7-m wireless link with a 45-Gbps transmission data rate by using 16 quadrature amplitude modulation(16-QAM).Super-heterodyne transceiver modules are developed for transmission and reception of the modulated signals,which consist of a Schottky barrier diodes(SBD)based sub-harmonic mixer(SHM),an InP HEMT low noise amplifier(LNA),a waveguide band-pass filter(BPF),and a 108-GHz local oscillator(LO)multiplier chain.The transmitter features a peak transmit power of 1.41 dBm,and the IF frequency varies from 5 GHz to 20 GHz.Besides,the receiver features a conversion gain of 9.3 dB in average and a noise temperature of 3052.8 K.The measured results indicate that the transceiver modules enable data transmission of a 45-Gbps 16-QAM signal with Signal-Noise-Ratio(SNR)from 11.59 dB to 15.36 dB in a 7-m line-of-sight channel.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1401002,2017YFA0700201,2017YFA0700202 and 2017YFA0700203).
文摘It is of great importance to control flexibly wireless links in the modern society,especially with the advent of the Internet of Things(IoT),fifth-generation communication(5G),and beyond.Recently,we have witnessed that programmable metasurface(PM)or reconfigurable intelligent surface(RIS)has become a key enabling technology for manipulating flexibly the wireless link;however,one fundamental but challenging issue is to online design the PM's control sequence in a complicated wireless environment,such as the real-world indoor environment.Here,we propose a reinforcement learning(RL)approach to online control of the PM and thus in-situ improve the quality of the underline wireless link.We designed an inexpensive one-bit PM working at around 2.442 GHz and developed associated RL algorithms,and demonstrated experimentally that it is capable of enhancing the quality of commodity wireless link by a factor of about 10 dB and beyond in multiple scenarios,even if the wireless transmitter is in the glancing angle of the PM in the realworld indoor environment.Moreover,we also prove that our RL algorithm can be extended to improve the wireless signals of receivers in dual-receiver scenario.We faithfully expect that the presented technique could hold important potentials in future wireless communication,smart homes,and many other fields.
基金supported by The National High Technology Research and Development Program of China(No.2015AA01A704)The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61302053).
文摘Test results for a 10-Gbps prototype demonstrator working at 71~76 GHz frequency band with a 2-bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency are reported.To overcome the speed limitation of the commercial DA/ADs,a two-channel analog IF multiplexing and demultiplexing topology is adopted as a trade-off between cost and spectrum efficiency.The same approach is also used to achieve up to 20 Gbps with a full 10-GHz bandwidth of the allocated commercial bands(71~76 GHz and 81~86 GHz).
文摘Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have many potential applications [1,2] and unique challenges. They usually consist of hundreds or thousands of small sensor nodes such as MICA2, which operate autonomously;conditions such as cost, invisible deployment and many application domains, lead to small size and resource limited sensors [3]. WSNs are susceptible to many types of link layer attacks [1] and most of traditional network security techniques are unusable on WSNs [3];This is due to wireless and shared nature of communication channel, untrusted transmissions, deployment in open environments, unattended nature and limited resources [1]. Therefore security is a vital requirement for these networks;but we have to design a proper security mechanism that attends to WSN’s constraints and requirements. In this paper, we focus on security of WSNs, divide it (the WSNs security) into four categories and will consider them, include: an overview of WSNs, security in WSNs, the threat model on WSNs, a wide variety of WSNs’ link layer attacks and a comparison of them. This work enables us to identify the purpose and capabilities of the attackers;furthermore, the goal and effects of the link layer attacks on WSNs are introduced. Also, this paper discusses known approaches of security detection and defensive mechanisms against the link layer attacks;this would enable IT security managers to manage the link layer attacks of WSNs more effectively.
文摘This paper presents a creative wireless LAN (WLAN) bridging solution, concentrating on the overall realization of a well designed interconnection. This solution integrates effective traffic insulation, intended access control, and required address translation without interfering with the vested interest of internet service provider (ISP). The specific solution can be widely applied on the campus-dorm (off campus)-ISP internetworking mode, where it is hard to implement wired link between campus network and dorm network in terms of cost and existing environmental constraints.
基金National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) under Grant No. 2006CB303001National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program) under Grant No. 2007AA01Z2A9+1 种基金CAS Knowledge Innovation Program under Grant No. KGCX2-YW-110-3CAS-Croucher Funding Scheme for Joint Laboratories and Key External Cooperation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No. GJHZ200819
文摘This study proposes an efficient secure routing protocol which considers symmetric and asymmetric links for wireless mesh networks(WMNs). A wireless mesh network is a group of wireless mesh routers and several kinds of wireless devices(or nodes). Individual node cooperates by forwarding packets to each other,allowing nodes to communicate beyond the symmetric or asymmetric links. Asymmetric link is a special feature of WMNs because the wireless transmission ranges of different wireless devices may be different. The asymmetric link enhances WMN coverage. Providing security in WMNs has become an important issue over the last few years. Existing research on this topic tends to focus on providing security for routing and data content in the symmetric link. However, most studies overlook the asymmetric link in these networks. This study proposes a novel distributed routing protocol beyond symmetric and asymmetric links, to guarantee the security and high reliability of the established route in a hostile environment, such as WMNs, by avoiding the use of unreliable intermediate nodes. The routes generated by the proposed protocol are shorter than those in prior works. The major objective of the proposed protocol is to allow trustworthy intermediate nodes to participate in the path construction protocol. The mesh clients out of mesh router wireless transmission range may discover a secure route to securely connect to the mesh router for Internet access via the proposed protocol. The proposed protocol enhances wireless mesh network coverage and assures security.
文摘Accurate link quality estimation is a fundamental building block in quality aware multi hop routing. In an inherently lossy, unreliable and dynamic medium such as wireless, the task of accurate estimation becomes very challenging. Over the years ETX has been widely used as a reliable link quality estimation metric. However, more recently it has been established that under heavy traffic loads ETX performance gets significantly worse. We examine the ETX metric's behavior in detail with respect to the MAC layer and UDP data; and identify the causes of its unreliability. Motivated by the observations made in our analysis, we present the design and implementation of our link quality measurement metric xDDR - a variation of ETX. This article extends xDDR to support network mobility. Our experiments show that xDDR substantially outperforms minimum hop count, ETX and HETX in terms of end-to-end packet delivery ratio in static as well as mobile scenarios.
文摘We present a problem for benchmarking the robustness of cellular up-links, in an automatic weather station (AWS) testbed. Based on the problem, we conduct a small-scale measurement study of robustness, where the AWS is equipped with four (4) cellular modems for weather data delivery. The effectiveness of up-links is challenging because of overlapping spatial-temporal factors such as the presence of good reflectors that lead to multi-path effects, interference, network load or other reasons. We argue that, there is a strong need for independent assessments of their robustness, to perform end-to-end network measurement. However, it is yet difficult to go from a particular measurement to an assessment of the entire network. We extensively measure the variability of Radio Signal Strength (RSSI) as link metric on the cellular modems. The RSSI is one of the important link metrics that can determine the robustness of received RF signals, and explore how they differed from one another at a particular location and instant time. We also apply the statistical analysis that quantifies the level of stability by considering the robustness, referring short-term variation, and determines good up-link in comparison to weak one. The results show that the robustness of cellular up-links exists for an unpredictable period of time and lower than one could hope. More than 50% of up-links are intermittent. Therefore, we plan to extend our work by exploring RSSI thresholds, to develop a classification scheme supporting a decision whether a link is either intermittent or not. This will help in normalizing the level of stability, to design the RSSI estimation metric for the robust routing protocol in weather data networks.
基金Sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.61262020)Aeronautical Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2010ZC56008 and 2012ZC56006)Key Technology R&D Program of Jiangxi Province(Grant No.2009BGA01000 and 20111BBE50030)
文摘With the rapid evolution of WSNs technology, it is very important to evaluate link quality quickly and accurately, so that the routing protocols can take relevant strategies in time to keep the entire network working steadily and efficiently. However, the issue of layer is still open to research. To tackle this issue, a improving link quality assessment methods on physical novel link quality assessment metric called S3LQA is proposed, which estimates the link quality of wireless sensor networks by CC2420 wireless radio frequency transceiver principles and free space propagation theory. The metric adopts both complete and incomplete packages to improve the evaluation performance effectively based on IEEE802. 15.4 frame format and DSSS-O- QPSK mechanism. The experimental results show that the proposed method can improve energy cost and achieves hatter real-timin nerformance than traditional counting-based (PRR) link aualitv assessment metric.
文摘Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) such as IEEE 802.11a/g and Hiperlan/2 utilise numerous transmission modes, each providing different throughputs and reliability levels. Many link adaptation algorithms proposed in the literature either maximise the error-free data throughput based on channel conditions or are based on the number of failed transmissions. However, these algo- rithms do not take into account the content of the data stream and strongly rely on the use of Automatic Repeat Requests (ARQs). Low latency video applications such as real-time video transmission may require no retransmission, or only a limited number of retrans- missions. Moreover, completely error-free communication is not essential, especially if robust video compression techniques are applied. In such scenarios, improved decoded video quality can be obtained with a video stream transmitted at a higher bit rate using a higher link speed but with some degree of transmission error, rather than an error-free video stream at a lower bit rate using a lower link speed. In this work, we investigate a link adaptation scheme that improves the Quality of Service (QoS) for video transmission, based on the overall received video quality (Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, PSNR), rather than by maximising the error-free throughput. We also study a practical link adaptation approach that uses PER thresholds at the PHY layer. An empirical study showed that thresholds for switching from one mode to another are much lower (almost error free) than those currently used by throughput based schemes. We show that traditional link adaptation strategies are not appropriate for real-time video transmission with no retransmis- sion. Simulation results using the H.264 video compression standard over IEEE 802.11a are presented.
文摘Control systems are being changed from wired to wireless communications because of flexibility, mobility and extensibility of wireless communication systems;however the reliability of wireless communications is suspected. In this paper, we propose cooperative communication scheme for wireless control systems which consist of a controller and multiple machines;these machines cooperatively work in a group and for the same duty. In the proposed method, the controller can communicate with machines directly or via other machines, whereas in the conventional method, the controller only communicates with machines directly. The simple 2-link arm plant is used to evaluate our proposed system, and the simulation results indicate that the proposed method is more accurate, and more stable than the conventional method.
文摘Wireless power transfer via inductive link is becoming a popular choice as an alternate powering scheme for biomedical sensor electronics. Spiral printed circuit board (PCB) inductors are gaining attractions for wireless power transfer applications due to their various advantages over conventional inductors such as low-cost, batch fabrication, durability, manufacturability on flexible substrates, etc. In this work, design of a multi-spiral stacked solenoidal inductor for biomedical application in 13.56 MHz band is presented. Proposed stacking method enhances the inductance density of the inductor for a given area. This paper reports an optimization technique for design and implementation of the PCB inductors. The proposed scheme shows higher inductance and better figure-of-merit values compared to PCB inductors reported in literature, which are desirable for wireless power transfer system.
基金Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Department of Education of Anhui Province(KJ2017A325)
文摘Quorum System is a good method to assist the design of sensors of the wake-up scheduling mechanism. However, there are some problems about idle rendezvous and poor link quality when the sensor performs a sensing task according to the Quorum System. In order to improve the efficiency of the sensors and reduce energy consumption, a new rendezvous mechanism is proposed. The use of energy and the link quality between sensors are considered from a global perspective. It can not only ensure the rendezvous opportunity among sensors, but also balance the residual energy of the sensors, so it can improve the energy-saving efficiency of traditional Quorum System. According to the simulation, compared with the traditional Quorum System scheduling mechanism, the rendezvous mechanism proposed in this paper can effectively reduce the number of time-slots when the sensor is idle. Moreover, it also realizes the balance of the residual energy of the sensor and the link quality, which prolongs the life cycle of the wireless sensor network and improves the communication quality.