BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2003-458 ENTRY:: June 06, 2003 ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science TITLE:: Power Conservation in the Network Stack of Wireless Sensors TYPE:: Technical Report (paper) REVISION:: 1 AUTHOR:: De Rosa, Michael DATE:: June 2003 RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to Technical Report Librarian Department of Computer Science Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Laboratory Hanover, NH 03755-3510 USA RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2003-458.pdf RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR2003-458.ps.Z ABSTRACT:: Wireless sensor networks have recently become an incredibly active research area in the networking community. Much attention has been given to the construction of power-conserving protocols and techniques, as battery life is the one factor that prevents successful wide-scale deployment of such networks. These techniques concentrate on the optimization of network behavior, as the wireless transmission of data is the most expensive operation performed by a sensor node. Very little work has been published on the integration of such techniques, and their suitability to various application domains. This paper presents an exhaustive power consumption analysis of network stacks constructed with common algorithms, to determine the interactions between such algorithms and the suitability of the resulting network stack for various applications. NOTE:: Senior Honors Thesis. Advisor: Bob Gray. END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR2003-458