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Bounds on the Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks Employing Multiple Data Sink

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A. P. Azad and A. Chockalingam November 2006

Supported by Beceem Communications Privated Limited and Wireless Research Lab: http://wrl.ece.iisc.ernet.in Department of Electrical Communication Engineering Indian Institute of Science Bangalore – 560012. INDIA

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Outline • Introduction • Single vs Multiple Base Stations • System Model • Bounds on Network Lifetime – Single Base Station – Two Base Station

∗ Jointly Optimum vs Individually Optimum • Conclusions &

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Introduction

• Wireless sensor networks – sensor nodes typically distributed in remote/hostile sensing areas – nodes powered by finite energy batteries – batteries not easily replaced/recharged – depletion of battery energy can result in

∗ a change in NW topology or ∗ end of NW life itself • Key issues in wireless sensor networks – Network lifetime – amount of useful data successfully transferred during NW lifetime

• Enhancing NW lifetime is crucial

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Data Transport Model

• A base station (BS) is typically located at the boundary of or beyond the field/area in which sensors are distributed

• BS collects data from the sensor nodes • Sensor nodes act as – source nodes that generate data to be passed on to the BS – intermediate relay nodes to relay data from other nodes towards the BS on a multihop basis

• Consequence of sensor nodes acting as relays – energy spent by nodes may not contribute to end-to-end delivery always (e.g., packets may still have more hops to reach the BS) – this results in reduced NW lifetime and efficiency in terms of total amount of data delivered to BS per joule of energy

– affects more when number of hops between sensor node(s) to BS gets larger &

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Multiple Base Stations • NW lifetime can be enhanced by the use of multiple BSs – deploy multiple BSs along the periphery/boundary of the sensing field/area – allow each BS to act as a data sink, i.e.,

∗ each sensor node can send its data to any one of these BSs (may be to the BS towards which the cost is minimum) – BSs can communicate among themselves to collate the data collected

∗ energy is not a major concern in the communication between BSs • Deploying multiple BSs essentially can reduce the average number of hops between the source-sink pairs – can result in enhanced lifetime / amount of data delivered

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I. Limits on NW Lifetime? • Several works have reported bounds on the NW lifetime for single BS scenario – Bhardwaj et al., IEEE ICC’2001 – Bhardwaj and Chandrakasan, IEEE INFOCOM’2002 – Zhang and Hou, ACM Mobihoc’2004 – Blough and Santi, Mobicom’2002 – Arnon S., IEEE Commun. Letters, Feb’2005 – Gandham, Dawande, Prakash and Venkateshan, Globecom ’2003

• Our contribution – derive upper bounds on NW life time when multiple BSs are deployed – obtain optimum locations of the BSs that maximize these lifetime bounds

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System Model

• Network – # sensor nodes:

N , # base stations: K

R

6

B1

R 7

3

2

6

B1

5

7

3

2

4

4

1

B3

1

5

B2 (a)

(b)

Figure1: A sensor network over a rectangular region of observation R with three base stations B1 , B2 , B3 . Node 1 sends its data to base station

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B1 via node 2. Node 3 sends its data to B2 via nodes 4 and 5. Node 6

sends its data to B3 via node 7. However in Single base station case data has to travel more no. of hops.

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System Model

• Node Energy Behaviour – key energy parameters are energies needed to

∗ sense a bit (Esense ), receive a bit (Erx ) ∗ transmit a bit over a distance d, (Etx ) • Assuming a dη path loss model, Etx = α11 + α2 dη ,

Erx = α12 ,

Esense = α3 ,

α11 , α12 : energy/bit consumed by the Tx, Rx electronics – α2 : accounts for energy/bit dissipated in the Tx amplifier, α3 : energy cost of sensing a bit –

– Typically, Esense

<< Etx , Erx .

• Energy/bit consumed by a relay node is Erelay (d) = α11 + α2 dη + α12 = α1 + α2 dη where α1

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= α11 + α12

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System Model • Node energy behaviour – If r is the # bits relayed per sec, the energy consumed per sec (i.e., power) is

Prelay (d) = r · Erelay (d) • The following energy parameters are used [Bhardwaj et al, ICC’2001],[Heinzelman Ph.D Thesis, MIT, 2000]: –

α1 = 180 nJ/bit



α2 = 10 pJ/bit/m2 (for η = 2) or 0.001 pJ/bit/m4 (for η = 4).

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Battery / Network Lifetime

• Ebattery Joules: Battery energy available in each sensor node at the initial deployment

• A sensor node ceases to operate if its battery is drained below a certain usable energy threshold

• Network lifetime definitions, e.g., – time taken till the first node to die - we use this definition in the derivation of NW lifetime upper bound – time taken till a percentage of nodes to die

• Given R, N , Ebattery , (α1 , α2 , α3 ) and η , we are interested in – deriving bounds on the network lifetime when K , K

≥ 1 base stations are deployed as data sinks along the periphery of the observation region R

– obtaining optimal locations of the base stations

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Minimum Energy Relay

• Bounding NW lifetime involves the problem of establishing a data link of certain rate r between a sender (A) and destination (B ) separated by distance D meters

• Two ways of doing this – direct transmission from A to B (in a single hop), or – using several intermediate nodes acting as relays (multihop)

• A scheme that transports data between two nodes such that the overall rate of energy dissipation is minimized is called a minimum energy relay

• If M − 1 relays are introduced between A and B , i.e., M links between A and B (see Fig.), the overall rate of dissipation is Plink (D) =

M X

Prelay (di ) − α12 ,

i=1

where di is the inter-node distance of the ith link. &

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Minimum Energy Relay dM B

dM M−1

d3

1

M−2

d2

3

2

d1 1

A

D Figure2:

M − 1 relay nodes between points A and B

• Theorem: Given D and the number of intermediate relays (M − 1), Plink (D) is minimized when all hop distances (i.e., di ’s) are made equal to D/M . • So, optimum number of hops (links) is the one that minimizes M Prelay (D/M ), and is given by Mopt =

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D dchar

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D , dchar

where dchar =

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r η

α1 α2 (η − 1)

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Minimum Energy Relay • Energy dissipation rate of relaying a bit over distance D can be bounded as Plink (D) ≥



 η D α1 − α12 r η − 1 dchar

with equality iff D is an integral multiple of dchar

• Power dissipated in the network is always larger than or equal to the sum of this Plink (D) and the power for sensing, i.e., Pnw ≥ Plink (D) + Psense

 D η − α12 r + α3 r ≥ α1 η − 1 dchar 

• As an approximation, sensing power can be ignored since the power for relaying data dominates.

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Bound on NW Lifetime - One BS

• Single BS: (BS can be located on any one of the four sides of R) (0,W)

(0,W)

(L.W)

(L.W)

R

R

x

y

B1

y

x

z (0,0)

(0,0)

(L,0)

a) B1 located on W-side

B1

z

(L,0)

b) B1 located on L-side

Figure3: Single base station placements. a) B1 located on W -side. b) B1 located on L-side (z)

• Let PNW denote the energy dissipation in the entire NW for a given BS z • Assuming uniform distribution of N Z Znodes

1 dx dy. W L R ” “p 2 2 By minimum energy relay argument, Pnw (x, y) ≥ Plink x + y , and hence (z)

PNW = N



(z)

PNW

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≥ ≥

N WL

rα1

Z

Pnw (x, y)

W −z

−z

Z

L

Plink 0

N η η − 1 WL

Z

“p

W −z −z

Z

x2

0

L

+

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dx dy

p x2 + y 2 dx dy dchar

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Bound on NW Lifetime - One BS

• Achieving NW lifetime demands that energy consumed in the NW to be no greater than N Ebattery (z)

• Denoting Tone-BS as the NW lifetime with one BS at a given location z , we have (z)

(z)

PNW Tone-BS ≤ N Ebattery

• An upper bound on the NW lifetime for a given BS location z is then given by (z)

Tone-BS ≤

N Ebattery (z)

PNW

• Optimal placement of the BS on the W-side can be obtained by choosing the z that maximizes the lifetime bound in the above, i.e., (W )

zopt

=

argmax

z ∈ (0, W )

(z)

Tone-BS .

• Performing the above maximization, the optimal BS location is obtained as (W )

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zopt = W/2,

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Bound on NW Lifetime - One BS 1

BS placed on L−side

Normalized upper Bound on NW lifetime

W=500m L=1000m 0.8 BS placed on W−side

0.6

0.4

0.2

W/2 0

0

100

200

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L/2 400

500 Z(m)

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800

900

1000

Figure4: Normalized upper bound on network life time as a function of base station location for L = 1000 m and W

= 500 m

• Optimum BS location is midpoint of L-side if L > W (midpoint of W -side if L ≤ W)

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Bound on NW Lifetime - Two BSs (W,0)

(W,0)

(L,W)

(L,W)

(W,0) z2

B2

(L,W)

B2 B2

z2 B1

z2

z1 (0,0)

(L,0) a) Same Side Orientation

(0,0)

z1

B1

b) Adjacent Side Orientation

(L,0)

(0,0)

z1

(L,0)

B1

c) Opposite Side Orientation

Figure5: Placements of two base stations. a) Same side orientation, b) adjacent side orientation, and c) opposite side orientation

• Each node in the NW must be associated with any one BS – can choose the BS towards which energy spent for delivering data is minimum (by min. energy relay argument, it could be the nearest BS)

• This results in the region R to be partitioned into two sub-regions R1 and R2 – This partitioning will occur along the perpendicular bisector of the line joining

B1 and B2

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Two BSs - Adjacent Side Orientation (W,0)

Xb

(W,0)

(L,W)

R1

(L,W)

R1

R2

B2

Yb

B2 z2

z2 Xa

B1 z1 a) partition along Xa Xb axis Xa  0 & X b  L

(0,0)

(L,0)

(0,0)

(L,W)

Yb

R1

z2

R2

Ya z1

B1

(L,0)

Ya Xb axis Ya  0 & Xb  L

a) partition along

(L,0)

B2

Ya (0,0)

B1

z1

(W,0)

(L,W)

R2

z2

Xa

Xa Yb axis Xa  0 & Y b  W

B2

R1

R2

a) partition along

Xb

(W,0)

Figure6: Adjacent side orientation of two base stations.

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axis, b) Xa Yb axis, c) Ya Xb axis, and d) Ya Yb axis.

z1

(0,0)

B1

(L,0)

Ya Yb axis Ya  0 & Yb  W

a) partition along

R1 , R2 partition can occur along a) Xa Xb

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Two BSs - Adjacent Side Orientation • The axis partitioning R1 and R2 is represented by the straight line Y = mX + c,

Xa = X|Y =0 Ya = Y |X=0

z1 z22 − z12 m= and c = z2 2z2

z12 − z22 W z2 z22 − z12 W −c c = , Xb = X|Y =W ⇒ Xb = − =⇒ Xa = − = m 2z1 m z1 2z1 z22 − z12 Lz1 z22 − z12 =⇒ Ya = c = , Yb = Y |X=L ⇒ Yb = mL + c = + 2z2 z2 2z2

• Partition axis type is i) Xa Xb if Xa ≥ 0 and Xb ≤ L (Fig. (a)), ii) Xa Yb if Xa ≥ 0 and Yb ≤ W (Fig. (b)), iii) Ya Xb if Ya ≥ 0 and Xb ≤ L (Fig. (c)), and iv) Ya Yb if Ya ≥ 0 and Yb ≤ W (Fig. (d)) &

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Two BSs - Adjacent Side Orientation • Energy dissipation in the entire NW with BS locations z1 and z2 for ASO case (z ,z )

1 2 PNW,aso =N

„Z Z

1 dx dy + Pnw (x, y) WL R1

• By minimum energy argument, Pnw (x, y) ≥ Plink (z1 ,z2 )

PNW,aso

where

d2-BS,aso (z1 , z2 ) = d2-BS,aso (z1 , z2 ) =

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p

1 dx dy Pnw (x, y) WL R2

«



x2 + y 2 , and hence

” rα1 η N “ R1 R2 ≥ d (z1 , z2 ) + d2-BS,aso (z1 , z2 ) dchar η − 1 W L 2-BS,aso

R1

R2

Z Z

Z Z

y2 y1 x6 x5

Z

x2 x1

Z

y6 y5

p

x2

p

x2

+ +

y2 y2

dx dy + dy dx +

Z Z

y4 y3 x8 x7

Z

x4

Z

y8

x3

y7

p x2 + y 2 dx dy p x2 + y 2 dy dx

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For

For

For

Xa Xb axis

Xa Yb axis

Ya Xb axis

Ya Yb axis

Fig.(a)

Fig.(b)

Fig.(c)

Fig.(d)

(x1 , x2 )

(0, Xz2 )

(0, Xz2 )

(0, Xz2 )

(0, Xz2 )

(y1 , y2 )

(−z2 ,

(−z2 ,

(Ya − z2 ,

(Ya − z2 ,

W − z2 )

Yb − z2 )

Yb − z2 )

W − z2 )

(x3 , x4 )

(0, 0)

(0, L)

(0, L)

(0, 0)

(y3 , y4 )

(0, 0)

(Yb − z2 ,

(Yb − z2 ,

(0, 0)

W − z2 )

W − z2 )

(Xa − z1 ,

(Xa − z1 ,

(−z1 ,

(−z1 ,

Xb − z 1 )

L − z1 )

L − z1 )

Xb − z 1 )

(y5 , y6 )

(0, Yz1 )

(0, Yz1 )

(0, Yz1 )

(0, Yz1 )

(x7 , x8 )

(Xb − z1 ,

(0, 0)

(0, 0)

(Xb − z1 ,

Limits

(x5 , x6 )

L − z1 ) &

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(y7 , y8 )

Table I: Values of limits y1 , y2 , · · ·

(0, W )

L − z1 ) (0, 0)

(0, 0)

(0, W )

, y8 and x1 , x2 , · · · , x8 for various partition axis types in Figs. (a), (b), (c), (d)

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Two BSs - Bound on NW Lifetime

• An upper bound on lifetime for a given z1 , z2 and ASO can be obtained as N Ebattery

(z ,z )

1 2 ≤ T2-BS,aso

η rα1 N dchar η−1 W L



R1

R2

d2-BS,aso (z1 , z2 ) + d2-BS,aso (z1 , z2 )

• Optimum locations of BSs for ASO is then given by 

z1,opt , z2,opt





argmax

=

aso

z1 ∈(0,L),

z2 ∈ (0, W )

(z ,z )

1 2 T2-BS,aso

• Lifetime bounds for SSO and OSO are derived likewise • Finally, optimum locations of the BSs are chosen from the best locations of ASO, SSO, and OSO cases, as argmax



z1,opt , z2,opt = &

z1 ∈(0,L), z2 ∈(0,W )

orient

∈ {aso,sso,oso}

(z ,z )

1 2 T2-BS,orient

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Two BSs - Numerical Results

• We obtained NW lifetime bound and optimum BS locations through optimization using genetic algorithm Two Base Stations (Jointly Optimum) Orientation

NW life time

Optimal locations

Upper Bound

of B1 , B2

(# rounds) SSO

W side

18.28

(0, 121.3), (0, 381.5)

L side

31.36

(133.7, 0), (761.4, 0)

32.60

(693.2, 0), (0, 263.6)

W side

31.41

(0, 249.4), (1000, 251.2)

L side

32.99

(716.6, 0), (282.6, 500)

ASO OSO

Table II: Upper bounds on network lifetime and optimal base station locations. Two base stations.

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Joint optimization.

L = 1000m, W = 500m.

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Two BS - Jointly vs Individually Optimum • The locations of B1 and B2 were jointly optimized – optimization complexity is high – becomes prohibitively complex for more number of base stations

• An alternate and relatively less complex approach is to individually optimize locations of B1 and B2 , i.e., – fix B1 at its optimal location obtained from the solution of one BS problem – then optimize the location of B2

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Two BSs - Jointly vs Individually Optimum Two Base Stations (Individually Optimum) Location of B1 fixed at (L/2, 0) Orientation

NW life time

= (500, 0)

Optimal location of B2

Upper Bound (# rounds) SSO

28.36

(164.9, 0)

ASO

30.22

(0, 496.2)

OSO

31.41

(502.5, 500)

Table III: Upper bounds on network lifetime and optimum base station locations for two base stations.

B1 fixed at optimum location obtained from solving single BS problem. L = 1000m, W = 500m.

• Both jointly as well as individually optimum solutions results in OSO (opposite side orientation) deployments

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Bound on NW Lifetime - Three BS

• Take the individually optimum approach (since less complex) – once locations of B1 and B2 are fixed, problem gets simplified to optimizing only over location of B3 z2

B2

(0,W) Xf

z2

Xd

(L,W)

(0,W)

B2

Xd

(L,W)

Ye R2

R2 Yb

Ya B3 z3

R1

R3

R1

(0,0) Xc

z1

B1

Xe

Yb

Ya

(L,0)

Adjacent Side with fixed : z1 = z2 = L/2

(0,0)

B3

z3

R3 Xc

z1

B1

Xe

(L,0)

Same Side with fixed : z1 = z2 = L/2

Figure7: Placement of three base stations. B1 and B2 are placed at optimal locations obtained by solving the two base station problem. Location of B3 is then optimized. a)B3 on adjacent side of B1 . b) B3 on same side as B1 .

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Three BSs - Numerical Results Three Base Stations (Individually Optimum) Location of B1 fixed at (500,0) Location of B2 fixed at (500,500) Orientation

NW life time

Optimum location

Upper Bound

of B3

(# rounds) SSO

36.44

(152.6, 0)

ASO

38.38

(0, 249.8)

Table IV: Upper bounds on network lifetime and optimum base station locations for three base stations.

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B1 and B2 fixed at optimum locations obtained from solving two base stations problem. L=1000m. W =500m.

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Performance Comparison of One, Two, Three BSs No. of BS

NW life time

Optimum BS

Upper Bound

Locations

(# rounds) One BS

24.34

B1 : (489.9, 0)

Two BS

32.99

B1 : (716.6, 0), B2 : (500, 282.6)

(Jointly opt) Two BS

31.41

B2 : (502.5, 500)

(Indiv. opt) Three BS (Indiv. opt)

B1 : (500, 0),

38.38

B1 : (500, 0), B2 : (500, 500) B3 : (0, 249.8)

TABLE V: Comparison of the upper bounds on network lifetime for one, two, and three base stations.

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L = 1000 m, W = 500 m.

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Simulation Results

• Simulated NW lifetime over several NW realizations at different BS locations were obtained

• Simulation parameters: –

N = 50, L = 1000 m, W = 500 m, Ebattery = 0.5J

– Routing: A modified version of Minimum Cost Forwarding (MCF) protocol – MAC: Contention-free ’Self-organizing MAC for Sensor NW (SMACS)’ protocol – Data packets are of equal length (each packet has 200 bits) – Time axis is divided into rounds; each round consists of 300 time frames – Each node generates 1 packet every 30 frames; i.e., 10 packets per round – NW lifetime: time until first node dies – Lifetime averaged over several realizations of the NW with 95% confidence for different number and locations of BSs

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Simulation Results - One BS 40 Theoretical Lifetime Simulated 35

30

Network Lifetime

25

20

15

One BS L=1000m W=500m E=.05J

10

5

0

0

100

200

300

400 500 600 Location of B1 on L Side (m)

700

800

900

1000

Figure8: Comparison of simulated network life time with theoretical upper bound for single base station case.

L = 1000 m, W = 500 m, Ebattery = 0.05 J. Location of B1 varied from (0,0) to (1000,0)

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Simulation Results - Two BSs 40 Theoretical Lifetime Simulated 35

30

Network Lifetime

25

20

15 Two BS B1 is fixed at (500,0) L=1000m W=500m E=.05J

10

5

0

0

100

200

300

400 500 600 Location of B2 on L side (m)

700

800

900

1000

Figure 9: Comparison of simulated network lifetime with theoretical upper bound for two base stations. L =

1000 m, W = 500, Ebattery = 0.05 J. B1 fixed at (500,0). Location of B2 varied from (0,500) to (1000,500)

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Simulation Results - Three BSs 40

35

Network Lifetime # rounds

30

Upper Bound Simulated

25

20

15 Three BS B1 is fixed at (500,0) B2 is fixed at (500,500) L = 1000 m W = 500 m E = 0.05J

10

5

0

0

50

100

150

200 250 300 350 Location of the BS on W side (m)

400

450

500

Figure10: Comparison of simulated network lifetime with theoretical upper bound for two base stations. L =

1000 m, W = 500, Ebattery = 0.05 J. B1 fixed at (500,0). B2 fixed at (500, 500). Location of B3 varied from

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Summary • In Multiple Base Station scenario – Upper Bound is derived which are validated with the help of simulation – Optimal locations of base stations are obtained and supported by simulation – Shown analytically that deploying multiple base stations extends lifetime

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