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Energy-Efficient Real-Time Task Scheduling for Battery-Powered Wireless Sensor Nodes

배터리 작동식의 무선 센서 노드를 위한 에너지 효율적인 실시간 태스크 스케줄링

  • 김동주 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 김태훈 (부산대학교 컴퓨터공학과) ;
  • 탁성우 (부산대학교 정보컴퓨터공학부)
  • Received : 2010.04.01
  • Accepted : 2010.10.05
  • Published : 2010.10.30
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Abstract

Building wireless sensor networks requires a constituting sensor node to consider the following limited hardware resources: a small battery lifetime limiting available power supply for the sensor node, a low-power microprocessor with a low-performance computing capability, and scarce memory resources. Despite such limited hardware resources of the sensor node, the sensor node platform needs to activate real-time sensing, guarantee the real-time processing of sensing data, and exchange data between individual sensor nodes concurrently. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an energy-efficient real-time task scheduling technique for battery-powered wireless sensor nodes. The proposed energy-efficient task scheduling technique controls the microprocessor's operating frequency and reduces the power consumption of a task by exploiting the slack time of the task when the actual execution time of the task can be less than its worst case execution time. The outcomes from experiments showed that the proposed scheduling technique yielded efficient performance in terms of guaranteeing the completion of real-time tasks within their deadlines and aiming to provide low power consumption.

무선 센서 네트워크를 구성하는 센서 노드는 배터리 기반의 제한된 전원과 낮은 연산 능력의 초경량 마이크로프로세서, 그리고 제한된 크기의 메모리 자원 등과 같은 하드웨어 사양을 가지고 있다. 이와 같은 제약 사항에도 불구하고 무선 센서 노드는 센싱 데이터의 실시간 처리 및 데이터 송수신 작업을 동시에 병행할 수 있어야 한다. 이에 본 논문에서는 배터리 작동식의 무선 센서 노드를 위한 에너지 효율적인 실시간 태스크 스케줄링 기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 에너지 효율적인 실시간 스케줄링 가법은 태스크의 실제 실행시간이 최악 실행시간보다 작을 경우에 발생되는 태스크의 실행 여유시간을 이용하여, 마이크로프로세서의 동작 주파수를 조절하고 무선 센서 노드의 전력 소비를 줄인다. 제안한 기법의 동작을 시험한 결과, 효율적인 전력 소비를 제공함과 동시에 실시간 태스크의 마감시한이 보장됨을 확인하였다.

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