L. Bölöni and D. Turgut

Should I send now or send later? A decision-theoretic approach to transmission scheduling in sensor networks with mobile sinks


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L. Bölöni and D. Turgut. Should I send now or send later? A decision-theoretic approach to transmission scheduling in sensor networks with mobile sinks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC), 8(3):385–403, 2008.

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Abstract:

Mobile sinks can significantly extend the lifetime of a sensor network by eliminating the need for expensive hop-by-hop routing. However, a sensor node might not always have a mobile sink in transmission range, or the mobile sink might be so far that the data transmission would be very expensive. In the latter case, the sensor node needs to make a decision whether it should send the data now, or take the risk to wait for a more favorable occasion. Making the right decisions in this \em transmission scheduling problem has significant impact on the performance and lifetime of the node. In this paper we investigate the fundamentals of the transmission scheduling problem for sensor networks with mobile sinks. We develop a dynamic programming based optimal algorithm for the case when the mobility of the sinks is known in advance. We develop two algorithms based on a decision theoretic approach. The first algorithm uses Markov Decision Processes with states without history information, the second algorithm encodes some elements of the history into the state. Through a series of experiments, we show that the decision theoretic approaches significantly outperform naive heuristics, and can have a performance close to that of the optimal approach, without requiring an advance knowledge of the mobility.

BibTeX:

@article{Boloni-2008-WCMC,
author = "L. B{\"o}l{\"o}ni and D. Turgut",
title = "Should {I} send now or send later? {A} decision-theoretic approach to transmission scheduling in sensor networks with mobile sinks",
journal = "Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Journal (WCMC)",
year = "2008",
volume = "8",
number = "3",
pages = "385-403",
abstract = {
  Mobile sinks can significantly extend the lifetime of a sensor
  network by eliminating the need for expensive hop-by-hop routing.
  However, a sensor node might not always have a mobile sink in
  transmission range, or the mobile sink might be so far that the
  data transmission would be very expensive. In the latter case, the
  sensor node needs to make a decision whether it should send the
  data now, or take the risk to wait for a more favorable occasion.
  Making the right decisions in this {\em transmission scheduling
    problem} has significant impact on the performance and lifetime of
  the node.
  In this paper we investigate the fundamentals of the transmission
  scheduling problem for sensor networks with mobile sinks. We
  develop a dynamic programming based optimal algorithm for the case
  when the mobility of the sinks is known in advance. We develop two
  algorithms based on a decision theoretic approach. The first
  algorithm uses Markov Decision Processes with states without
  history information, the second algorithm encodes some elements of
  the history into the state. Through a series of experiments, we
  show that the decision theoretic approaches significantly
  outperform naive heuristics, and can have a performance close to
  that of the optimal approach, without requiring an advance
  knowledge of the mobility.
 },
}

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