Description

Wireless sensor networks have been used in many mobile applications such as wildlife tracking and participatory urban sensing. Because of the combination of high mobility and low-duty-cycle operations, it is a challenging issue to reduce discovery delay among mobile nodes, so that mobile nodes can establish connection quickly once they are within each other’s vicinity. Existing discovery designs are essentially pairwise based, in which discovery is passively achieved when two nodes are prescheduled to wake up at the same time. In contrast, this work reduces discovery delay significantly by proactively referring wake-up schedules among a group of nodes.