Rollout Algorithm Based Duty Cycle Control with Joint Optimisation of Delay and Energy Efficiency for Beacon-enabled IEEE 802.15.4 Networks

Conference: European Wireless 2014 - 20th European Wireless Conference
05/14/2014 - 05/16/2014 at Barcelona, Spain

Proceedings: European Wireless 2014

Pages: 6Language: englishTyp: PDF

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Authors:
Li, Yun; Chai, Kok Keong; Chen, Yue (School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK)
Loo, Jonathan (Department of Computer and Communications Engineering, Middlesex University)

Abstract:
Duty cycle control is applied in IEEE 802.15.4 medium access control (MAC) protocol to reduce energy consumption. A low duty cycle improves the energy efficiency but it reduces the available transmission time, thereby increases the end-to-end delay. Thus, it is a challenge issue to achieve a good trade-off between energy efficiency and delay. In this paper, we study a duty cycle control problem with the aim of minimising the joint-cost of energy consumption and end-to-end delay. By applying dynamic programming (DP), the optimal duty cycle control is derived. Furthermore, to ensure the feasibility of implementing the control on computation limited sensor devices, a low complexity rollout algorithm based duty cycle control (RADutyCon) is proposed. The joint-cost upper bound of the proposed RADutyCon is investigated. Simulation results show that RADutyCon can effectively reduces the joint-cost of energy consumption and end-to-end delay under various network traffic. In addition, RADutyCon achieves an exponential reduction of computation complexity compared with DP optimal control.