Title :
Impact of sleep in a wireless sensor MAC protocol
Author :
Ramakrishnan, Subah ; Huang, Hong ; Balakrishnan, Manikanden ; Mullen, John
Author_Institution :
Klipsch Sch. of Electr. Eng., New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM, USA
Abstract :
A sensor net consists of tiny devices with severe energy constraints. Employing energy efficient, sensor-specific MAC protocols is of necessity for sensor nets, and such protocols have been proposed in the literature. Sensor MAC protocols introduce sleep in sensor nodes to conserve energy and the impact of sleep on protocol performance needs a detailed investigation. In this paper, we quantify the effect of sleep on protocol performance through queueing analysis and simulation. Results demonstrate quantitatively the tradeoff between energy consumption and average latency in sensor MAC protocols.
Keywords :
access protocols; wireless sensor networks; MAC protocol duty cycle; SMAC protocol; energy consumption/average latency tradeoff; energy efficient protocols; node sleep mode; packet arrival rates; queueing analysis; sensor energy constraints; sensor-specific protocols; wireless sensor MAC protocol; Analytical models; Delay; Energy consumption; Energy efficiency; Media Access Protocol; Performance analysis; Queueing analysis; Sleep; Wireless application protocol; Wireless sensor networks;
Conference_Titel :
Vehicular Technology Conference, 2004. VTC2004-Fall. 2004 IEEE 60th
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8521-7
DOI :
10.1109/VETECF.2004.1404966
