On the optimum number of cooperating nodes in interfered cluster-based sensor networks

Stefan Mijovic (1) , Luca Sanguinetti (2) , Chiara Buratti (1) , Merouane Debbah (3, 2)

1 UNIBO - Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna]
2 LANEAS - Large Networks and Systems Group
3 Chaire Radio Flexible - Chaire Radio Flexible Alcatel-Lucent/Supélec

—This paper presents a cooperative multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) scheme for a wireless sensor network consisting of inexpensive nodes, organised in clusters and transmitting data towards sinks. The transmission is affected by hardware imperfections, imperfect synchronisation, data correlation among nodes of the same cluster, channel estimation errors and interference among nodes of different clusters. Within this setting, we are interested in determining the number of nodes per cluster that maximises the energy efficiency of the network. The analysis is conducted in the asymptotic regime in which the number N of sensor nodes per cluster grows large without bound. Numerical results are used to validate the asymptotic analysis in the finite system regime and to investigate different configurations. It turns out that the optimum number of sensor nodes per cluster increases with the inter-cluster interference and with the number of sinks.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Information Theory [cs.IT]

Stefan Mijovic, Luca Sanguinetti, Chiara Buratti, Merouane Debbah. On the optimum number of cooperating nodes in interfered cluster-based sensor networks. ICC 2016 - 2016 IEEE International Conference on Communications, May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ⟨10.1109/ICC.2016.7511418⟩. ⟨hal-01789335⟩