Performance Analysis of the Actuator Discovery Protocol ... - Fethi Filali

case is the latency because the sensor data can be no more valid at the time of
actuation in case of increased latency. Which makes the assumption of a separate
wireless interface for actuator-actuator coordination quite relevant.
Note that in this work, we study the generic architecture which is robust and entirely
distributed with a little varying-degree of centralized control for the actuators
on their local clusters. In prior work done for SANET coordination protocols, an
excess of energy is consumed whenever sensors have some sensed data to transmit
to the nearest sink, even at the cost of variable delay and regardless of the fact that
events were rarely detected or an any-cast transmit strategy is followed. Instead
of trying to achieve improvements for a particular application, we addressed both
the static and dynamic network configurations with different natures of mobility,
changes to the discrete paths, energy and delay efficient path-recovery procedures,
and avoid using the GPS system for position localizations. In addition, the energy
consumption by the sensors (in order) to keep the updated-paths is highly dependent
on mobility. In this regard, the nodes can adaptively tune their update-interval
based on their mobility, which makes the ADP highly adaptive to any kind of network
configuration with optimum energy consumption and a promised QoS. It
also has the ability to adapt any nature of mobility at the expense of minimum total
network energy-consumption. This feature has the tendency to lean the SANETs
to-wards minimum residual energy sensor and actuator networks. We believe that
the proposed ADP leads toward optimal total network energy consumption providing
a guaranteed QoS for both densely deployed and stringent real-time traffic
networks.
The remainder of the paper is structured as follows. In Section 2, the dynamics
of the proposed ADP for mobile SANETs are explained in detail. Section 3
presents the experimental results. Section 4 summarizes the paper with a brief
conclusion and outlines the future work.
2 The ADP for Mobile SANETs
As we have already explained in the earlier section that there is no sensor/actuator
network structure and architecture, and the basic goals of the previously done work
relied mostly on the considered application. In this work, we propose an architecture
which is tailored toward a standard behavior for most deployment scenarios,
aiming to satiate the time-stringent requirements and effective energy utilization in
a purely distributed fashion.
2.1 Overview of the ADP
The learning-phase starts when the sensors during the initial deployment stage locate
the nearest actuator using a one-hop broadcast. The deployment of the sensor
and actuator nodes can be randomly chosen or follow any pre-defined distributions.
The finding of the "optimal-actuator attachment" for each sensor node is
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