DocumentCode
2262346
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
fYear
2010
fDate
1-3 Sept. 2010
Firstpage
609
Lastpage
615
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
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
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/HPCC.2010.118
Filename
5581436
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