Title :
A comparison of MAC protocols for wireless local networks based on battery power consumption
Author :
Chen, Jyh-Cheng ; Sivalingam, Krishna M. ; Agrawal, Prathima ; Kishore, Shalinee
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
fDate :
29 Mar-2 Apr 1998
Abstract :
Energy efficiency is an important issue in mobile wireless networks since the battery life of mobile terminals is limited. Conservation of battery power has been addressed using many techniques. This paper addresses energy efficiency in medium access control (MAC) protocols for wireless networks. The paper develops a framework to study the energy consumption of a MAC protocol from the transceiver usage perspective. This framework is then applied to compare the performance of a set of protocols that includes IEEE 802.11, energy-conserving MAC (EC-MAC), PRMA, multiservices dynamic reservation-TDMA (MDR-TDMA), and distributed-queueing request update multiple access (DQRUMA). The performance metrics considered are transmitter and receiver usage times for packet transmission and reception. The analysis here shows that protocols that aim to reduce the number of contentions perform better from a energy consumption perspective. The receiver usage time, however; tends to be higher for protocols that require the mobile to sense the medium before attempting transmission
Keywords :
IEEE standards; cells (electric); energy conservation; land mobile radio; packet radio networks; packet reservation multiple access; radio receivers; radio transmitters; telecommunication standards; time division multiple access; wireless LAN; DQRUMA; EC-MAC; IEEE 802.11; MAC protocols; MDR-TDMA; PRMA; battery power consumption; contention reduction; distributed-queueing request update multiple access; energy consumption; energy efficiency; energy-conserving MAC; medium access control protocols; mobile terminals; multiservices dynamic reservation-TDMA; packet reception; packet transmission; performance; performance metrics; receiver usage time; transceiver usage; transmitter usage time; wireless LAN; wireless local networks; Access protocols; Batteries; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Measurement; Media Access Protocol; Transceivers; Transmitters; Wireless application protocol; Wireless networks;
Conference_Titel :
INFOCOM '98. Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Proceedings. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4383-2
DOI :
10.1109/INFCOM.1998.659649
