An Energy-Efficient Adaptive Modulation Suitable for Wireless Sensor Networks with SER and Throughput Constraints

• Main Authors: J. Joaquín Escudero Garzás, Carlos Bousoño Calzón, Ana García Armada
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SpringerOpen 2007-05-01
• Series: EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2007/41401

We consider the problem of minimizing transmission energy in wireless sensor networks by taking into account that every sensor may require a different bit rate and reliability according to its particular application. We propose a cross-layer approach to tackle such a minimization in centralized networks for the total transmission energy consumption of the network: in the physical layer, for each sensor the sink estimates the channel gain and adaptively selects a modulation scheme; in the MAC layer, each sensor is correspondingly assigned a number of time slots. The modulation level and the number of allocated time slots for every sensor are constrained to attain their applications bit rates in a global energy-efficient manner. The signal-to-noise ratio gap approximation is used in our exposition in order to jointly handle required bit rates, transmission energies, and symbol error rates.