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T2PC: Temperature-aware Transmission Power Control Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks  

Lee, Jung-Wook (광운대학교 전자통신공학과)
Chung, Kwang-Sue (광운대학교 전자통신공학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Information Networking / v.37, no.5, 2010 , pp. 403-408 More about this Journal
Abstract
The sensor nodes can be installed in the environment in which the temperature change is considerable, such as desert, urban, and data center. Particularly, because the output power becomes less than the targeted power if a temperature is increasing, link quality is degraded and packet losses are occurred. In order to compensate the temperature changes, existing schemes detect the change of the link quality between nodes and control transmission power through a series of feedback process. However, these approaches can cause heavy overhead by additional control packets. In this paper, we propose the T2PC(Temperature-aware Transmission Power Control) to keep up the link quality despite temperature variation. At each node, T2PC compensates the attenuated link quality by controlling the transmission power based on the local temperature measurement. In addition, the packet reception ratio can be improved with less control packets than ones required in existing transmission power control methods based on the feedback control.
Keywords
Wireless Sensor Networks; Temperature; RSSI; Transmission Power Control;
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