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http://dx.doi.org/10.3837/tiis.2017.05.007

Reduced-Pipelined Duty Cycle MAC Protocol (RP-MAC) for Wireless Sensor Network  

Nguyen, Ngoc Minh (Department of Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Kim, Myung Kyun (Department of Computer Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS) / v.11, no.5, 2017 , pp. 2433-2452 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, the pipeline-forwarding has been proposed as a new technique to resolve the end-to-end latency problem of the duty-cycle MAC protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Some protocols based on this technique such as PMAC and PRI-MAC have shown an improvement not only in terms of reducing end-to-end latency but also in terms of reducing power consumption. In these protocols, however, the sensor nodes still waste a significant amount of energy for unnecessary idle listening during contention period of upstream nodes to check the channel activity. This paper proposes a new pipeline-forwarding duty-cycle MAC protocol, named RP-MAC (Reduced Pipelined duty-cycle MAC), which tries to reduce the waste of energy. By taking advantage of ACK mechanism and shortening the handshaking procedure, RP-MAC minimizes the time for checking the channel and therefore reduces the energy consumption due to unnecessary idle listening. When comparing RP-MAC with the existing solution PRI-MAC and RMAC, our QualNet-based simulation results show a significant improvement in term of energy consumption.
Keywords
Wireless Sensor networks; pipeline-forwarding; cross-layer; medium access control protocol; routing integrated;
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