A Low-Overhead Energy-Efficient ARQ Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

摘要

Wireless sensor network(WSN) is a typical kind of low-power and lossy network,in where ARQ(Automatic Repeat reQuest)schemes are often used to improve packets reliability.However,the ARQ related packets may incur significant load and consume more energy.This paper proposes a novel energy efficient ARQ protocol called ARQ+,which uses the nearest-first scheme and NAK aggregation scheme to reduce the amount and transmission hops of the ARQ related packets.Consequently,the energy consumption is significantly decreased.Theoretical analyses of ARQ+ on energy consumption,packet arrive ratio and latency are provided.Performance improvement of ARQ+ is validated by extensive simulations.They both show that ARQ+ has satisfactory energy efficiency,good packets arriving ratio and reasonable average packet delay comparing to traditional ARQ schemes.