A Wake-Up Radio-Based MAC Protocol for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks

Pégatoquet, Alain; Le, Thanh Long; Magno, Michele

doi:10.1109/tnet.2018.2880797

“…Figure 3 shows how this can collide with the data being sent by Sender 2 at Receiver 1’s end. A. Pegatoquet et al showed that, when the network has more than 15 nodes, the ASYM-MAC protocol introduces highest data collision rate [51]. However, in our proposed protocol, there is no transition between receiver initiated and sender initiated mode.…”

Section: Problem Statementmentioning

confidence: 86%

Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Asymmetric Links: A Novel Cooperative Asynchronous MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Hasan

¹

,

Karmaker

²

,

Alam

³

et al. 2019

Sensors

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As Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) grow in popularity, researchers are now focusing more on some challenging issues that significantly degrade overall performance, such as energy hole mitigation, link asymmetry minimization, etc. Link asymmetry is a problem that arises when the coverage distance between two adjacent nodes varies. It creates an obstacle to overcome when designing an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol for WSNs with low duty-cycling. This phenomenon poses an especially difficult challenge for receiver-initiated asynchronous MAC protocols, which are popular due to their relatively higher energy efficiency. Exploiting the benefits of cooperative communication has emerged as one of the viable solutions to overcome this limitation. Cooperative communication in WSNs has received a lot of attention in recent years. Many researchers have worked to create a MAC layer supporting cooperative communication. However, the association of cooperative communication with an asymmetric link is not studied in the literature. In this research work, COASYM-MAC, a cooperative asynchronous MAC protocol for WSNs, is proposed based on a receiver-initiated MAC protocol that uses the fact that nodes have alternate paths between them to reduce link asymmetry. A key feature of the proposed protocol is that the optimal helper node is selected automatically in case of link asymmetry. Simulations exhibited that COASYM-MAC performs significantly better than a state-of-the-art MAC protocol for WSNs that handles asymmetric links, ASYM-MAC.

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“…In Pegatoquet et al (2019), a multi-hop WuR-based MAC protocol, namely fully asynchronous WuR (FAWR), is proposed for EH-WSNs. FAWR tries to overcome the limited range of existing WuRs via multi-hop relaying mechanism.…”

Section: Fawrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy-efficient MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey

Afroz

¹

,

Braun

²

2020

IJSNET

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Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of a large number of battery-powered tiny sensor nodes wirelessly connected together to facilitate a wide range of monitoring applications. As WSN nodes are energy-constrained microelectronic devices, the primary design objective of WSNs is to minimise energy consumption to prolong the network lifetime. To achieve this goal, a range of cross-layer techniques, particularly focusing on medium access control (MAC) sublayer, is proposed targeting different WSN applications. This paper aims to survey low-power WSN MAC protocols, proposed from 2000 to the present, emphasising some general aspects including the issues addressed, the solutions proposed, design principles, strengths, drawbacks and target applications. With this aim, we mainly classify the MAC protocols into three categories: contention-based protocols, time division multiple access (TDMA)-based protocols and hybrid protocols, where the first category is further subdivided into subclasses. The development trends and potential research challenges are also discussed.

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“…By exploiting FWT, FAWR reduces the signalling overhead required for forwarding wake-up calls (WuCs) through multiple relay nodes. Results in Pegatoquet et al (2019) show that FAWR outperforms state-of-the-art duty-cycled MAC protocols in terms of energy consumption, transmission latency and collision rate.…”

Section: Fawrmentioning

confidence: 99%

Energy-efficient MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey

Afroz

¹

,

Braun

²

2020

IJSNET

1

0

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Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a network of a large number of battery-powered tiny sensor nodes wirelessly connected together to facilitate a wide range of monitoring applications. As WSN nodes are energy-constrained microelectronic devices, the primary design objective of WSNs is to minimise energy consumption to prolong the network lifetime. To achieve this goal, a range of cross-layer techniques, particularly focusing on medium access control (MAC) sublayer, is proposed targeting different WSN applications. This paper aims to survey low-power WSN MAC protocols, proposed from 2000 to the present, emphasising some general aspects including the issues addressed, the solutions proposed, design principles, strengths, drawbacks and target applications. With this aim, we mainly classify the MAC protocols into three categories: contention-based protocols, time division multiple access (TDMA)-based protocols and hybrid protocols, where the first category is further subdivided into subclasses. The development trends and potential research challenges are also discussed.

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A Wake-Up Radio-Based MAC Protocol for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks

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Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Asymmetric Links: A Novel Cooperative Asynchronous MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Minimizing the Adverse Effects of Asymmetric Links: A Novel Cooperative Asynchronous MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Energy-efficient MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey

Energy-efficient MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks: a survey

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