Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model

<p/> <p>We present an energy analysis technique applicable to medium access control (MAC) and multihop communications. Furthermore, the technique's application gives insight on using multihop forwarding instead of single-hop communications. Using the technique, we perform an energy...

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Main Authors: M&#228;h&#246;nen Petri, Haapola Jussi, Shelby Zach, Pomalaza-R&#225;ez Carlos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2005-01-01
Series:EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
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Online Access:http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2005/219063
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spelling doaj-68b768cceb264200bab8116d327344212020-11-24T22:00:49ZengSpringerOpenEURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking1687-14721687-14992005-01-0120054219063Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis ModelM&#228;h&#246;nen PetriHaapola JussiShelby ZachPomalaza-R&#225;ez Carlos<p/> <p>We present an energy analysis technique applicable to medium access control (MAC) and multihop communications. Furthermore, the technique's application gives insight on using multihop forwarding instead of single-hop communications. Using the technique, we perform an energy analysis of carrier-sense-multiple-access (CSMA-) based MAC protocols with sleeping schemes. Power constraints set by battery operation raise energy efficiency as the prime factor for wireless sensor networks. A detailed energy expenditure analysis of the physical, the link, and the network layers together can provide a basis for developing new energy-efficient wireless sensor networks. The presented technique provides a set of analytical tools for accomplishing this. With those tools, the energy impact of radio, MAC, and topology parameters on the network can be investigated. From the analysis, we extract key parameters of selected MAC protocols and show that some traditional mechanisms, such as binary exponential backoff, have inherent problems.</p>http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2005/219063energy efficiencywireless sensor networksmedium access controlmultihop communications
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author M&#228;h&#246;nen Petri
Haapola Jussi
Shelby Zach
Pomalaza-R&#225;ez Carlos
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Haapola Jussi
Shelby Zach
Pomalaza-R&#225;ez Carlos
Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model
EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
energy efficiency
wireless sensor networks
medium access control
multihop communications
author_facet M&#228;h&#246;nen Petri
Haapola Jussi
Shelby Zach
Pomalaza-R&#225;ez Carlos
author_sort M&#228;h&#246;nen Petri
title Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model
title_short Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model
title_full Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model
title_fullStr Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model
title_full_unstemmed Multihop Medium Access Control for WSNs: An Energy Analysis Model
title_sort multihop medium access control for wsns: an energy analysis model
publisher SpringerOpen
series EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking
issn 1687-1472
1687-1499
publishDate 2005-01-01
description <p/> <p>We present an energy analysis technique applicable to medium access control (MAC) and multihop communications. Furthermore, the technique's application gives insight on using multihop forwarding instead of single-hop communications. Using the technique, we perform an energy analysis of carrier-sense-multiple-access (CSMA-) based MAC protocols with sleeping schemes. Power constraints set by battery operation raise energy efficiency as the prime factor for wireless sensor networks. A detailed energy expenditure analysis of the physical, the link, and the network layers together can provide a basis for developing new energy-efficient wireless sensor networks. The presented technique provides a set of analytical tools for accomplishing this. With those tools, the energy impact of radio, MAC, and topology parameters on the network can be investigated. From the analysis, we extract key parameters of selected MAC protocols and show that some traditional mechanisms, such as binary exponential backoff, have inherent problems.</p>
topic energy efficiency
wireless sensor networks
medium access control
multihop communications
url http://jwcn.eurasipjournals.com/content/2005/219063
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