Meta-heuristic cross-layer protocol for UWB emergency responder sensor network

Abstract

In this paper, an ultra-wideband based sensor network for an emergency responder system is analyzed. Due to multiple objectives such as adaptive data rate, power control and quality-of-service the message transmission can be framed as a non-deterministic polynomial computation time hard problem. Thus a meta-heuristic algorithm is applied to obtain a reliable and optimal solution. The designed cross layer protocol incorporates the signalpsilas physical properties. thus balancing the throughput while reducing latency, sensor resources thus longevity of network is attained.