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Towards a Unified Radio Power Management Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks

In many wireless sensor networks, energy is an extremely limited resource. While many different power management strategies have been proposed to help reduce the amount of energy wasted, application developers still face two fundamental challenges when developing systems with stringent power constraints. First, existing power management strategies are usually tightly coupled with network protocols and other system functionality. This monolithic approach has led to standalone solutions that cannot easily be reused or extended to other applications or platforms. Second, different power management strategies make different and sometimes even conflicting assumptions about the rest of the system with which they need to interact. Without knowledge of which strategies are interoperable with which set of network stack protocols it is dificult for application developers to make informed decisions as to which strategy is most appropriate for their particular application. To address these challenges, we propose a Unified Power Management Architecture (UPMA) that supports the flexible composition of different power management strategies based on application requirements. We envision this architecture to consist of both low level programming interfaces, as well as high level modeling abstractions. These abstractions characterize the key properties of different applications, network protocols, and power management strategies. Using these properties, configuration tools can be created that match each application with the most appropriate network protocol and power management strategy suited to its needs