Implementation of Rank Based Sleep Scheduling (RBSS) protocol for WSNs in a fixed grid topology

Tarek Sheltami*, Abdul Jabbar Siddiqui, Hamza Ijaz Abbasi, Uthman Baroudi, Lahouari Ghouti

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Abstract

One of the most significant challenges in wide-scale Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is to achieve energy efficiency in order to increase their lifetime and ensuring responsiveness. A very widely applied approach in this regard is to overload the region with numerous low-cost sensing devices that can communicate with each other wirelessly and coordinate amongst themselves in developing schedules for being asleep or active. The literature has numerous research works in this regard which aim to develop efficient sleep scheduling schemes. In this paper, we present an implementation of a grid-topology based cooperative Rank Based Sleep Scheduling (RBSS) protocol in which the nodes of every cell coordinate in a distributive manner, the decision making process of selecting the nodes that should stay active, while others sleep. The proposed protocol guarantees the WSN connectivity as well as the required coverage. Finally, we implement RBSS on a small scale grid using TelosB motes.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)348-355
Number of pages8
JournalProcedia Computer Science
Volume19
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
The authors would like to acknowledge the support of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Keywords

  • Crossbow telosB motes
  • GAF protocol
  • Grid topology
  • NesC
  • SPAN protocol
  • Sleep scheduling
  • TinyOS
  • Wireless sensor networks

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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