Bounding the lifetime of sensor networks via optimal role assignments

Abstract
A key challenge in ad-hoc, data-gathering wireless sensor networks is achieving a lifetime of several years using nodes that carry merely hundreds of joules of stored energy. In this pa- per, we explore the fundamental limits of energy-efficient collabo- rative data-gathering by deriving upper bounds on the lifetime of increasingly sophisticated sensor networks.

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