research-article

Wake-up receivers for wireless sensor networks: benefits and challenges

Authors:

Ilker Demirkol,

Ertan OnurAuthors Info & Claims

IEEE Wireless Communications, Volume 16, Issue 4

Pages 88 - 96

https://doi.org/10.1109/MWC.2009.5281260

Published: 01 August 2009 Publication History

Abstract

For successful data delivery, the destination nodes should be listening to the medium to receive data when the sender node starts data communication. To achieve this synchronization, there are different rendezvous schemes, among which the most energy-efficient is utilizing wakeup receivers. Current hardware technologies of wake-up receivers enable us to evaluate them as a promising solution for wireless sensor networks. In this article the benefits achieved with wake-up receivers are investigated along with the challenges observed. In addition, an overview of state-of-the-art hardware and networking protocol proposals is presented. As wakeup receivers offer new opportunities, new potential application areas are also presented and discussed.

References

[1]

E. Y. A. Lin, J. M. Rabaey, and A. Wolisz, "Power-Efficient Rendezvous Schemes for Dense Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. IEEE ICC, vol. 7, June 2004, pp. 3769-76.

[2]

C. Schurgers et al., "Optimizing Sensor Networks in the Energy-Latency-Density Design Space," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comp., vol. 1, no. 1, Jan./Mar. 2002, pp. 70-80.

Digital Library

[3]

Austria Microsystems, "3D Low Power Wakeup Receiver- AS3931," 2009; http://www.austriamicrosystems. com/eng/content/view/full/544.

[4]

N. Joehl et al., "A Low-Power 1-GHz Super-Regenerative Transceiver with Time-Shared PLL Control," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 7, July 2001, pp. 1025-31.

[5]

B. Otis, Y. H. Chee, and J. Rabaey, "A 400mW-RX 1.6mW-TX Super-Regenerative Transceiver for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE ISSCC '05, Feb. 2005, pp. 396-7.

[6]

S. von der Mark et al., "Three Stage Wakeup Scheme for Sensor Networks," SBMO/IEEE MTT-S Int'l. Conf. Microwave and Optoelectronics, July 2005, pp. 205-8.

[7]

L. Gu and J. A. Stankovic, "Radio-Triggered Wake-up for Wireless Sensor Networks," Real-Time Sys., vol. 29, no. 2-3, 2005, pp. 157-82.

Digital Library

[8]

D. H. Goldberg et al., "VLSI Implementation of an Energy-Aware Wake-Up Detector for an Acoustic Surveillance Sensor Network," ACM Trans. Sensor Net., vol. 2, no. 4, 2006, pp. 594-611.

Digital Library

[9]

M. J. Miller and N. H. Vaidya, "A MAC Protocol to Reduce Sensor Network Energy Consumption Using a Wakeup Radio," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comp., vol. 4, no. 3, May/June 2005, pp. 228-42.

Digital Library

[10]

M. Dhanaraj, B. S. Manoj, and C. S. R. Murthy, "A New Energy Efficient Protocol for Minimizing Multi-Hop Latency in Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. 3rd IEEE PERCOM '05, Washington, DC, 2005, pp. 117-26.

[11]

X. Yang and N. H. Vaidya, "A Wakeup Scheme for Sensor Networks: Achieving Balance between Energy Saving and End-to-End Delay," Proc. 10th IEEE RTAS '04, May 2004, pp. 19-26.

[12]

R. C. Shah and J. M. Rabaey, "Energy Aware Routing for Low Energy Ad Hoc Sensor Networks," Proc. IEEE WCNC, vol. 1, Mar. 2002, pp. 350-55.

[13]

C. Guo, L. C. Zhong, and J. Rabaey, "Low Power Distributed MAC for Ad Hoc Sensor Radio Networks," Proc. IEEE GLOBECOM, vol. 5, San Antonio, TX, Nov. 2001, pp. 2944-48.

[14]

K. Chowdhury et al., "CMAC -- A Multi-Channel Energy Efficient MAC for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. IEEE WCNC, vol. 2, Apr. 2006, pp. 1172-77.

[15]

E. Shih, P. Bahl, and M. J. Sinclair, "Wake on Wireless: An Event Driven Energy Saving Strategy for Battery Operated Devices," Proc. ACM MobiCom, Sept. 2002, pp. 160-71.

Digital Library

[16]

L. Zhong, J. M. Rabaey, and A. Wolisz, "An Integrated Data-Link Energy Model for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proc. IEEE ICC, vol. 7, June 2004, pp. 3777-83.

[17]

R. Subramanian and F. Fekri, "Sleep Scheduling and Lifetime Maximization in Sensor Networks: Fundamental Limits and Optimal Solutions," Proc. 5th IPSN '06, Apr. 2006, pp. 218-25.

Digital Library

[18]

L. Song and D. Hatzinakos, "A Cross-Layer Architecture of Wireless Sensor Networks for Target Tracking," IEEE/ACM Trans. Net., vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. 2007, pp. 145-58.

Digital Library

[19]

Khalil, S. Bagchi, and N. B. Shroff, "SLAM: Sleep-Wake Aware Local Monitoring in Sensor Networks," Proc. 37th IEEE/IFIP Int'l. Conf. Dependable Sys, and Net., 2007, pp. 565-74.

[20]

A. Boukerche, X. Fei, and R. B. Araujo, "An Optimal Coverage-Preserving Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Local Information Exchange," Comp. Commun., vol. 30, no. 14-15, 2007, pp. 2708-20.

Digital Library

[21]

N. Ahmed, S. S. Kanhere, and S. Jha, "The Holes Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey," Mobile Comp. Commun. Review, vol. 9, no. 2, 2005, pp. 4-18.

Digital Library

Cited By

Ghribi MMeddeb A(2023)A dual-mode MAC protocol with service differentiation for industrial IoT networks using wake-up radioAd Hoc Networks10.1016/j.adhoc.2023.103111142:COnline publication date: 1-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.adhoc.2023.103111
Mertens JGalluccio LMorabito G(2022)MGM-4-FLComputer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109144214:COnline publication date: 4-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109144
Nowbahari AMarchetti LAzadmehr M(2021)An Oscillator-Based Wake-Up Receiver for Wireless Sensor Networks2021 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)10.1109/SAS51076.2021.9530093(1-5)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SAS51076.2021.9530093
Show More Cited By

Wake-up receivers for wireless sensor networks: benefits and challenges
1. Networks
  1. Network types
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures

Recommendations

Radio-Triggered Wake-Up for Wireless Sensor Networks

Power management is an important technique to prolong the lifespan of sensor networks. Many power management protocols employ wake-up/sleep schedules, which are often complicated and inefficient. We present power management schemes that eliminate such ...
Multi-hop Wake-up Control for On-demand Wireless Sensor Networks Exploiting Wake-up Receivers
2018 IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
This paper focuses on on–demand wireless sensor networks (WSNs) where a main radio interface (IF) used for data communications by each node is remotely activated through its secondary radio called wake–up receiver. The energy–...
Research on the wake-up method for active sleeping node in wireless sensor networks

In view of the shortcomings of wake-up method for active sleeping node in wireless sensor networks, such as short network life and poor synchronisation accuracy, awake-up method for active sleeping node based on partial coverage application is proposed. ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image IEEE Wireless Communications

IEEE Wireless Communications Volume 16, Issue 4

August 2009

88 pages

ISSN:1536-1284

Issue’s Table of Contents

Copyright © 2009.

Publisher

IEEE Press

Publication History

Published: 01 August 2009

Qualifiers

Research-article

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

30
Total Citations
View Citations
0
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)0
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 27 Feb 2025

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Ghribi MMeddeb A(2023)A dual-mode MAC protocol with service differentiation for industrial IoT networks using wake-up radioAd Hoc Networks10.1016/j.adhoc.2023.103111142:COnline publication date: 1-Apr-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.adhoc.2023.103111
Mertens JGalluccio LMorabito G(2022)MGM-4-FLComputer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109144214:COnline publication date: 4-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109144
Nowbahari AMarchetti LAzadmehr M(2021)An Oscillator-Based Wake-Up Receiver for Wireless Sensor Networks2021 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)10.1109/SAS51076.2021.9530093(1-5)Online publication date: 23-Aug-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/SAS51076.2021.9530093
Blobel JTran VMisra ADressler F(2021)Low-Power Downlink for the Internet of Things using IEEE 802.11-compliant Wake-Up ReceiversIEEE INFOCOM 2021 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications10.1109/INFOCOM42981.2021.9488838(1-10)Online publication date: 10-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/INFOCOM42981.2021.9488838
Yomo HMinami YKawakita HShiraishi J(2021)Wake-up Control with Kernel Density Estimation for Top-k Query in Wireless Sensor Networks2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685097(01-06)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/GLOBECOM46510.2021.9685097
Pawar NBourgeau TChaouchi HValois FJulien CMurphy AGnawali O(2020)Power Gating and Its Application in Wake-Up RadioProceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks10.5555/3400306.3400348(218-223)Online publication date: 17-Feb-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3400306.3400348
Ghribi MMeddeb A(2020)Survey and taxonomy of MAC, routing and cross layer protocols using wake-up radioJournal of Network and Computer Applications10.1016/j.jnca.2019.102465149:COnline publication date: 1-Jan-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.jnca.2019.102465
Aliouat LMabed HBourgeois JLi FCoutinho R(2019)Flexible Multipoint-to-Multipoint Routing Protocol in Ultra-Dense NanonetworksProceedings of the 17th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access10.1145/3345770.3356746(81-87)Online publication date: 25-Nov-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3345770.3356746
Sutton FForno RBeutel JThiele L(2019)BLITZACM Transactions on Sensor Networks10.1145/330970215:2(1-38)Online publication date: 28-Mar-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3309702
Tang SObana S(2019)Reducing false wake-up in contention-based wake-up control of wireless LANsWireless Networks10.1007/s11276-018-1662-y25:5(2333-2349)Online publication date: 1-Jul-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s11276-018-1662-y
Show More Cited By

View Options

View options

Figures

Tables

Media

View Issue’s Table of Contents