A study with simulation of power consumption and latency for MAC protocols in WSN based on IR-UWB transceiver

The introduction of the Impulse The introduction of the Impulse Radio Ultra Wide Band (IR-UWB) in the field of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) was promising for researchers especially for its low power consumption feature. To implement such a solution, we need a suitable MAC protocol to exploit the specific features of this new technology. In this paper, we provide a comparative study of MAC protocols for IR-UWB based WSN, evaluating their main features in terms of various metrics, including the Packets arrival delays (latency) and power consumption. It is believed that the comparison presented in this paper would benefit in selecting an appropriate protocol. A simulation of a sink based architecture network with various nodes´ number has been performed.