Optimizing Energy Consumption and QoS in WMSNs Using Queueing Theory

The limited resources and enormous amounts of data generated by multimedia sensors require efficient strategies to extend network lifetime while taking into account quality-of-service requirements such as reliability and delay. In contrast, limited battery resources require new techniques to balance energy consumption and multimedia application requirements in wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs). These requirements are very critical, especially for network stability and performance. In this paper, an energy-efficient mechanism based on the M/D/1/B queueing model is proposed. According to the packets in the queue and the waiting time, the nodes decide their activation time, so the nodes wake up for a while to transmit the data in the queue and then go to sleep mode. The simulation results of the proposed algorithm show that the proposed mechanism achieves optimal values to reduce energy consumption while meeting the quality-of-service requirements under different conditions.