Distributed Broadcast with Minimum Latency in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under SINR-Based Interference

Data broadcast is a fundamental operation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The existence of wireless interference makes it nontrivial to design a minimum-latency broadcast scheme, which is known to be NP-hard. Existing works all assume strict time synchronization and provide centralized TDMA sche...

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Main Authors: Shiliang Xiao, Lebing Pan, Jianpo Liu, Baoqing Li, Xiaobing Yuan
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2013-11-01
Series:International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/506797
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Lebing Pan
Jianpo Liu
Baoqing Li
Xiaobing Yuan
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description Data broadcast is a fundamental operation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The existence of wireless interference makes it nontrivial to design a minimum-latency broadcast scheme, which is known to be NP-hard. Existing works all assume strict time synchronization and provide centralized TDMA scheduling algorithms. However, WSNs in practice are more likely to be distributed asynchronous systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of data broadcast with minimum latency for distributed asynchronous WSNs. To this end, we propose a Distributed Asynchronous Broadcast (DAB) algorithm which crucially leverages an elaborately optimized carrier-sensing range together with collision-backoff schemes to coordinate the transmissions among the nodes on a predetermined broadcast backbone. Theoretical analysis shows that DAB is order-optimal and achieves constant factor approximation to the optimal delay. We then conduct extensive simulations to evaluate the practical capability of DAB in asynchronous WSNs and the results corroborate our theoretical analysis.
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spelling doaj-art-a71f8fb8f68a49c590bda2fab1affc7a2025-08-20T03:38:49ZengWileyInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772013-11-01910.1155/2013/506797Distributed Broadcast with Minimum Latency in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under SINR-Based InterferenceShiliang Xiao0Lebing Pan1Jianpo Liu2Baoqing Li3Xiaobing Yuan4 University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19 Yuquan Street, Shijingshan District, Beijing 100049, China Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 365 Changning Street, Changning District, Shanghai 200050, China Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 365 Changning Street, Changning District, Shanghai 200050, China Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 365 Changning Street, Changning District, Shanghai 200050, China Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 365 Changning Street, Changning District, Shanghai 200050, ChinaData broadcast is a fundamental operation in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The existence of wireless interference makes it nontrivial to design a minimum-latency broadcast scheme, which is known to be NP-hard. Existing works all assume strict time synchronization and provide centralized TDMA scheduling algorithms. However, WSNs in practice are more likely to be distributed asynchronous systems. In this paper, we investigate the problem of data broadcast with minimum latency for distributed asynchronous WSNs. To this end, we propose a Distributed Asynchronous Broadcast (DAB) algorithm which crucially leverages an elaborately optimized carrier-sensing range together with collision-backoff schemes to coordinate the transmissions among the nodes on a predetermined broadcast backbone. Theoretical analysis shows that DAB is order-optimal and achieves constant factor approximation to the optimal delay. We then conduct extensive simulations to evaluate the practical capability of DAB in asynchronous WSNs and the results corroborate our theoretical analysis.https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/506797
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title Distributed Broadcast with Minimum Latency in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under SINR-Based Interference
title_full Distributed Broadcast with Minimum Latency in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under SINR-Based Interference
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title_short Distributed Broadcast with Minimum Latency in Asynchronous Wireless Sensor Networks under SINR-Based Interference
title_sort distributed broadcast with minimum latency in asynchronous wireless sensor networks under sinr based interference
url https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/506797
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