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http://dx.doi.org/10.9716/KITS.2011.10.3.237

The Energy Performance Analysis Between Synchronous and Asynchronous Duty Cycle based MAC Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks  

Lee, Jae-Ho (고려대학교 전기전자전파공학과 미래정보망 연구실)
Eom, Doo-Seop (고려대학교 전기전자전파공학과)
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Journal of Information Technology Services / v.10, no.3, 2011 , pp. 237-250 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) require energy performance and guaranteed delivery delay time, contrarily with previous MAC protocols that aim to high throughput mostly. In order to satisfy the new significant requirements, many MAC protocols of WSN employ and try to enhance the duty cycle mechanism which is energy efficient technique in MAC layer. This duty cycle mechanism is oriented by toggling the transceiver conditions composed of wakeup and sleep states. The synchronous MAC protocols perform the period synchronization process. Hence, these are energy efficient in periodic monitoring environment, but are inefficient in where an event is incurred rarely and infrequently. Otherwise, the performance of asynchronous MAC protocols are contrarily with synchronous protocols. In this paper, we design two models consisting Always-busy and Always-idle ti simplify the general network congestion conditions. Through these models, moreover, we analyze two types MAC protocols in terms of energy efficiency and delay performance by analytical results. Additionally, we also evaluate two MAC protocols with two gongestion models that we designed. By the analytical and simulated results, we provide the general and efficient decision method in which protocols are more appropriate in a certain WSN environment.
Keywords
MAC; Analysis of MAC; Duty Cycle; WSN; Wireless Sensor Networks;
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