A Coverage-Aware QoS Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rong-Guei Tsai ◽  
Hao-Li Wang
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Qos Control

scholarly journals QC2: A QoS Control Scheme with Quick Convergence in Wireless Sensor Networks

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao-Li Wang ◽  
Wei-Lun Hung
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Convergence Time ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Qos Control ◽  
Active Sensors ◽  
Target Number ◽  
Target Value ◽  
Control Scheme

In wireless sensor networks, too many or too few power-on sensors may cause the waste of resources or poor sensing efficiency; thus, controlling the number of active sensors to meet the predicted target number is the purpose of this research. However, the total number of sensors may be unstable because of the increment and damage to the sensors. It is difficult to control the number of active sensors to meet the predicted target in this condition. Previous studies proposed the Gur Game algorithm to solve this problem. However, the convergence time of the Gur Game algorithm is too long, which causes sensors to consume excessive power and waste resources. Therefore, this paper proposed the QoS Control with Quick Convergence (QC2). This method utilizes total virtual value to accelerate the convergence operation from the number of sensors to the target number. The experiment result shows that the QC2 method can cause the number of sensors to converge rapidly with the target value and that QC2 can be over a hundred times faster than the Gur Game algorithm with regard to convergence.

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