Technical Report: Energy Evaluation of Preamble Sampling MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks

Giorgio Corbellini (1) , Cédric Abgrall (1) , Emilio Calvanese Strinati (1) , Andrzej Duda (2)

1 CEA-LETI - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives - Laboratoire d'Electronique et de Technologie de l'Information
2 ENSIMAG - École nationale supérieure d'informatique et de mathématiques appliquées

The paper presents a simple probabilistic analysis of the energy consumption in preamble sampling MAC protocols. We validate the analytical results with simulations. We compare the classical MAC protocols (B-MAC and X-MAC) with LA-MAC, a method proposed in a companion paper. Our analysis highlights the energy savings achievable with LA-MAC with respect to B-MAC and X-MAC. It also shows that LA-MAC provides the best performance in the considered case of high density networks under traffic congestion.

Mots clés: Wireless sensor network; energy consumption; MAC protocol; energy analysis; preamble sampling

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Giorgio Corbellini, Cédric Abgrall, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, Andrzej Duda. Technical Report: Energy Evaluation of Preamble Sampling MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks. 2011. ⟨hal-00627873v1⟩