Analysis of Energy Consumption and Sleeping Protocols in PHY-MAC for UWB Networks

Energy conservation is an important issue in wireless networks, especially for self-organized, low power, low data-rate impulse-radio ultra-wideband (IR-UWB) networks, where every node is a battery-driven device. To conserve energy, it is necessary to turn node into sleep state when no data exist. This paper addresses the energy consumption analysis of direct-sequence (DS) versus time-hopping (TH) multiple accesses and two kinds of sleeping protocols (slotted and unslotted) in PHY-MAC for UWB networks. We introduce an analytical model for energy consumption of a node in both TH and DS multiple accesses and evaluate the energy consumption comparison between them and also evaluate the performance of the proposed sleeping protocols. Simulation results show that the energy consumption per packet of DS case is less than TH case and for slotted sleeping is less than that of unslotted one for bursty load case, but with respect to the load access delay unslotted one consumes less energy, that maximize node lifetime.