Modeling and Analysis for Data Collection in Duty-Cycled Linear Sensor Networks With Pipelined-Forwarding Feature

Due to the vast demand for monitoring a structure or area in linear topology, linear sensor networks (LSNs) have recently attracted plenty of attention. Since sensor nodes are usually battery-powered, duty-cycling techniques have been widely studied to improve energy efficiency, which, however, introduces a significant issue known as sleep latency. Thereafter pipelined forwarding has been proposed in the literature as a promising way to alleviate this issue. This paper focuses on interference analysis for data collection services in a multihop LSN running a duty-cycling and pipelined-forwarding protocol, where multiple concurrent transmissions along a data collection path can severely interfere with each other. We first obtain the nodal distance distributions associated with all concurrent transmissions. Based on the obtained distance distributions and the path-loss model in an interference-limited environment, we analyze the distributions of signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and link capacity. The obtained SINR distribution indicates the link outage probability at a given SINR threshold. By investigating the transmission which receives the strongest cumulative interference, our model can provide useful guidelines for duty cycle setting to achieve a desired network performance.