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An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks

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Tijs van Dam,

Koen LangendoenAuthors Info & Claims

SenSys '03: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems

Pages 171 - 180

https://doi.org/10.1145/958491.958512

Published: 05 November 2003 Publication History

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In this paper we describe T-MAC, a contention-based Medium Access Control protocol for wireless sensor networks. Applications for these networks have some characteristics (low message rate, insensitivity to latency) that can be exploited to reduce energy consumption by introducing an activesleep duty cycle. To handle load variations in time and location T-MAC introduces an adaptive duty cycle in a novel way: by dynamically ending the active part of it. This reduces the amount of energy wasted on idle listening, in which nodes wait for potentially incoming messages, while still maintaining a reasonable throughput.We discuss the design of T-MAC, and provide a head-to-head comparison with classic CSMA (no duty cycle) and S-MAC (fixed duty cycle) through extensive simulations. Under homogeneous load, T-MAC and S-MAC achieve similar reductions in energy consumption (up to 98%) compared to CSMA. In a sample scenario with variable load, however, T-MAC outperforms S-MAC by a factor of 5. Preliminary energy-consumption measurements provide insight into the internal workings of the T-MAC protocol.

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An adaptive energy-efficient MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
1. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network structure
  2. Network types
    1. Mobile networks
    2. Wireless access networks
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Contextual software domains
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SenSys '03: Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems

November 2003

356 pages

ISBN:1581137079

DOI:10.1145/958491

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