• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
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Reduced-Pipelined Duty Cycle MAC Protocol (RP-MAC) for Wireless Sensor Network


Abstract

Recently, the pipeline-forwarding has been proposed as a new technique to resolve the end-to-end latency problem of the duty-cycle MAC protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Some protocols based on this technique such as PMAC and PRI-MAC have shown an improvement not only in terms of reducing end-to-end latency but also in terms of reducing power consumption. In these protocols, however, the sensor nodes still waste a significant amount of energy for unnecessary idle listening during contention period of upstream nodes to check the channel activity. This paper proposes a new pipeline-forwarding duty-cycle MAC protocol, named RP-MAC (Reduced Pipelined duty-cycle MAC), which tries to reduce the waste of energy. By taking advantage of ACK mechanism and shortening the handshaking procedure, RP-MAC minimizes the time for checking the channel and therefore reduces the energy consumption due to unnecessary idle listening. When comparing RP-MAC with the existing solution PRI-MAC and RMAC, our QualNet-based simulation results show a significant improvement in term of energy consumption.


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[IEEE Style]
N. M. Nguyen and M. K. Kim, "Reduced-Pipelined Duty Cycle MAC Protocol (RP-MAC) for Wireless Sensor Network," KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 2433-2452, 2017. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2017.05.007.

[ACM Style]
Ngoc Minh Nguyen and Myung Kyun Kim. 2017. Reduced-Pipelined Duty Cycle MAC Protocol (RP-MAC) for Wireless Sensor Network. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 11, 5, (2017), 2433-2452. DOI: 10.3837/tiis.2017.05.007.

[BibTeX Style]
@article{tiis:21445, title="Reduced-Pipelined Duty Cycle MAC Protocol (RP-MAC) for Wireless Sensor Network", author="Ngoc Minh Nguyen and Myung Kyun Kim and ", journal="KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems", DOI={10.3837/tiis.2017.05.007}, volume={11}, number={5}, year="2017", month={May}, pages={2433-2452}}