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A Novel Concept of UWB Pulse Switching in Sensor Networks

Authors:
Qiong Huo
Subir Biswas

Keywords: Impulse Radio; Pulse Switching; UWB; Sensor Network; Event Monitoring; Pulse Routing

Abstract:
This paper presents the initial results of applying a novel concept of energy-efficient pulse switching protocol for ultra-light-weight wireless network applications. The key idea is to abstract a single pulse, as opposed to multi-bit packets, as the information exchange mechanism. Pulse switching is shown to be sufficient for event sensing applications with binary sensing. Event sensing with conventional packet transport can be prohibitively energy-inefficient due to the communication, processing, and buffering overheads of the large number of bits within a packet’s data, header, and preambles. The paper presents the key architectural ideas of a joint MAC-Routing protocol for pulse switching with a novel hop-angular event localization

Pages: 21 to 24

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: June 24, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4219

ISBN: 978-1-61208-203-5

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from June 24, 2012 to June 29, 2012