MN-ALG: A Data Delivery Algorithm for Large Scale Wireless Electronic Shelf Label System

  • Yingzhuang Chen
  • Qifei Zhang
  • Chaofan Tu
  • Yuchang Zhang
  • Fan Bai
  • Yinchao Xue
  • Sheng Zhang
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 9528)

Abstract

Electronic Shelf Labeling System (ESLs) can be used in various application scenes such as in warehouses and supermarkets, it significantly improves the management efficiency. In this paper, we propose a data delivery algorithm called “MN-ALG”, on the purpose to fulfill: the ability of building large-scale networks; the requirement of label nodes using “Sleep/Waken” working mode; achieving efficient transmission of data. MN-ALG broadcasts notification messages to destination nodes via an auxiliary channel, achieves data delivery and notification process in parallel, and by controlling notified number, the problem of channel congestion could be avoided. We implement MN-ALG in real-world environment. Experimental data show, implementing the proposed MN-ALG algorithm would help enlarge the scale as well meets the latency constraints performance of the system in comparison with other data delivery algorithms.

Keywords

WSN ESLs Data delivery algorithm Large-scale Real-time Sleep/Waken 

Notes

Acknowledgments

This work is supported by the National Key Technology Support Program of China (NO. 2013BAH01B06), the Environmental Charity Project of China (NO. 2013467065) and the Ningbo Natural Science Foundation (No. 2013A610064).

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Yingzhuang Chen
    • 1
  • Qifei Zhang
    • 1
  • Chaofan Tu
    • 1
  • Yuchang Zhang
    • 1
  • Fan Bai
    • 2
  • Yinchao Xue
    • 1
  • Sheng Zhang
    • 3
  1. 1.School of Software TechnologyZhejiang UniversityNingboChina
  2. 2.Department of Electrical and Electronic EngineeringUniversity of NottinghamNottinghamUK
  3. 3.Chinese People’s Liberation Army 73610 ArmyNanjingChina

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