The Effective Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Opportunistic Networks

Abstract

One of the purposes of Internet of Things (IoT) is to reach more deeper perception. For this purpose, the efficient energy consumption is necessary among intelligent devices that make up the part of Opportunistic Networks (ONs). It is irrational for an ONs without any sleep scheduling because of awful user experience. We explore a sleeping schedule which is based on duty cycling for mobile devices to reduce energy consumption of ONs. To see how schedule affects the performance of ONs, we took a series of simulations and the results indicated that the sleeping schedule is an efficient method for prolonging the network life time in ONs. The successful delivery ratio can increase two to three times when factor Tr equal 0.2. We also observed that the network matrices are acceptable, and the network survival time can be extended effectively in ONs.