@ARTICLE{Ruz07Sen,
  AUTHOR =       {A.G. Ruzzelli, R. Jurdak and G.M.P O'Hare},
  TITLE =        {On the RFID wake-up impulse for multi-hop sensor networks },
  JOURNAL =      {In Proceeding of In Proceeding of ACM Workshop on Convergence of RFID and Wireless Sensor Networks and their Applications, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2007, Sydney, AU},
  YEAR =         {2007},
  month =        {November 6},
  abstract =     {Communication protocols for wireless sensor networks 
reduce the energy consumption by duty cycling the node 
activity and adopting a periodic sleeping scheduling. This 
approach often results in idle listening and therefore energy 
dissipated for listening to a channel free from packet 
transmitted. Duty cycling trades-off energy consumption 
due to idle listening and high end-to-end delay. Proposed 
solutions mitigate this issue for example through extra 
low-power radio components (wake-up radio) that listen to 
the radio and wake-up the node if some channel activity 
is sensed. These extra components also consume some 
energy to listen to the channel. In contrast, we propose 
an on-demand wake-up capability, namely RFIDimpulse, 
which is achieved through using an off-the-shelf battery- 
less RFID tag attached to each sensor node that is also 
provided with RFID reader capability. Because modern 
RFID techniques can trigger all the neighbouring tags at 
once or pinpoint a particular tag, RFIDimpluse provides both 
unicast and multicast capability. RFIDimpulse allows event- 
driven communication and eliminates node idle listening. 

},
}