Title :
The Energy Cost of Control Packets in Hybrid MAC Protocols
Author :
Dong, Qian ; Dargie, Waltenegus ; Schill, Alexander
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Networks, Tech. Univ. of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Abstract :
This paper investigates the energy cost of control packets in contention-based medium access control protocols in wireless sensor networks. Control packets are useful to avoid collision and overhearing, but cost a significant amount of energy. Therefore, whether or not to apply control packets is a trade-off. It will be shown that this trade-off mainly depends on the packet arrival rate at individual nodes, the transmission rate, the duty cycle and the average number of active neighbors in the network.
Keywords :
access protocols; packet radio networks; wireless sensor networks; collision avoidance; contention-based medium access control protocols; control packet energy cost; duty cycle; hybrid MAC protocols; packet arrival rate; wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, VIC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8335-8
Electronic_ISBN :
978-0-7695-4214-0
DOI :
10.1109/HPCC.2010.118
