A survey of game-theoretic on power control issues in wireless sensor networks

摘要

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is composed of tiny, low-power, multifunction nodes that are densely deployed due to their potential for use in a wide variety of environments like monitoring of environmental attributes, and various military and civilian applications. Power control is a crucial research problem in WSNs as it can satisfy basic levels of networks performance, such as coverage and connectivity in the deployment region. In this paper, we look at the problems of power control based on the approach of game theory. According to different applications, taxonomy is proposed, which divides current existing typical game-theoretic approaches for WSNs. The main ideas of each approach are overviewed while advantages and disadvantages of various algorithms are discussed. Then, this paper overviews related work and highlights the difference from other papers, and points out some future research areas for ensuring WSNs power control based on game theory. It will make the researchers to have a better understanding of game-theoretic solutions to WSNs energy efficiency and further research.