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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2014.05.006

RIX-MAC: An Energy-Efficient Receiver-Initiated Wakeup MAC Protocol for WSNs  

Park, Inhye (Department of Computer Engineering Kwangwoon University)
Lee, Hyungkeun (Department of Computer Engineering Kwangwoon University)
Kang, Seokjoong (Department of Management of Technology for Defense Korea University)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.8, no.5, 2014 , pp. 1604-1617 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes RIX-MAC (Receiver-Initiated X-MAC), a new energy-efficient MAC protocol based on an asynchronous duty cycling. RIX-MAC improves energy efficiency through utilizing short preambles and adopting the receiver-initiated approach, where RIX-MAC minimizes sender nodes' energy consumption by enabling transmitters to predict receiver nodes' wake-up times. It also reduces receiver nodes' energy consumption by decreasing the number of control frames. We use the network simulator to evaluate RIX-MAC's performance. Compared to the prior asynchronous duty cycling approaches of X-MAC and PW-MAC, the proposed protocol shows a remarkable improvement in energy-efficiency and end-to-end delay.
Keywords
wireless sensor network; medium access control; asynchronous duty cycling; energy-efficiency MAC;
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