Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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446365 | AEU - International Journal of Electronics and Communications | 2012 | 7 Pages |
Indoor heterogeneous wireless sensor networks are considered in this paper. We analyze the power consumption for multihop communications with non-regenerative relays. Since sensor nodes are battery operated, energy consumption is a crucial issue. We determine the optimal relay gains and transmitted power that minimize the dissipated power for a given quality of service in a narrow band fading channel. Our work includes two main contributions: firstly, we study the energy consumption taking into account hardware aspects, especially the relays’ efficiency. In an AWGN channel, carefully analyzing the energy gain as a function of the position, we show that relay characteristics have an important impact on the multihop link consumption budget. We then use a Rice channel model based on simulations and further study the hardware impact on energy saving.