Energy-efficient DSPs for wireless sensor networks

There are many new challenges to be faced in implementing signal processing algorithms and designing energy-efficient DSPs for microsensor networks. We study system partitioning of computation to improve the energy efficiency of a wireless sensor networking application. We explore system partitioning between the sensor cluster and the base station, employing computation-communication tradeoffs to reduce energy dissipation. Also we show that system partitioning of computation within the cluster can also improve the energy efficiency by using dynamic voltage scaling (DVS).

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