Abstract:

The delay-aware dynamic resource management problem was investigated in sensor network,with a focus on resource allocation among the sensors and power control along the time.By taking account of average delay requirements and power constraints,the considered problem was formulated into a stochastic optimization problem.Inspired by Lyapunov optimization theory,the intractable stochastic optimization problem was transformed into a tractable deterministic optimization problem,which was a mixed-integer resource management problem.By exploiting the specific problem structure,the mixed-integer resource management problem was equivalently transformed into a single variable problem,and the cooperative distributed method was present to effectively solve it with guaranteed global optimality.Finally,a dynamic resource management algorithm was proposed to solve the original stochastic optimization problem.Simulation results show the performance of the proposed dynamic algorithm and reveal that there exists a fundamental tradeoff between delay requirements and power consumption.

Key words: delay-sensitive, sensor network, dynamic resource management, stochastic optimization problem