ILA: Idle Listening Avoidance in Scheduled Wireless Sensor Networks

2010 ◽  
pp. 363-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Brzozowski ◽  
Hendrik Salomon ◽  
Peter Langendoerfer
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Idle Listening

RE-MAC: A Reliable Energy Efficient MAC Protocol For Wireless Sensor Networks

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 509-517
Author(s):  
Santhosh Simon ◽  
K Paulose Jacob
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Data Transfer ◽  
Mac Protocol ◽  
Sleep Time ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Sleep State ◽  
Duty Cycling ◽  
Promising Area ◽  
Idle Listening

Wireless sensor networks are considered to be a promising area to equip scientists with the capability of developing real-time monitoring systems. This paper discusses the design and development of a wireless sensor network (WSN) that can be used for monitoring purposes in the agricultural fields. This battery-powered sensor node makes the network deployment easy but limit the lifetime of the network to the limited capacity of these batteries. The main source of energy wastage in modern sensor networks is idle listening and overhearing. Duty cycling is a proven mechanism to overcome the energy wastage through idle listening. In this paper we introduce a new MAC protocol named as REMAC that minimizes the idle listening by allowing nodes to remain in sleep state until it is necessary to wakeup. It also allows the participating nodes to wake up during the sleep time, perform the data transfer and return to sleep state thereby minimizing the chances for over hearing. We show the performance of REMAC through detailed simulations in NS-2 and also compare the performance evaluation with similar synchronous protocols that employ duty cycling. In the analysis REMAC proves to be saving much energy as compared to others.

scholarly journals Energy-Efficient Method for Wireless Sensor Networks Low-Power Radio Operation in Internet of Things

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Amirinasab Nasab ◽  
Shahaboddin Shamshirband ◽  
Anthony Chronopoulos ◽  
Amir Mosavi ◽  
Narjes Nabipour
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Sensor Networks ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Wireless Sensor ◽  
Common Source ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Duty Cycles ◽  
Idle Listening

The radio operation in wireless sensor networks (WSN) in Internet of Things (IoT) applications is the most common source for power consumption. Consequently, recognizing and controlling the factors affecting radio operation can be valuable for managing the node power consumption. Among essential factors affecting radio operation, the time spent for checking the radio is of utmost importance for monitoring power consumption. It can lead to false WakeUp or idle listening in radio duty cycles and ContikiMAC. ContikiMAC is a low-power radio duty-cycle protocol in Contiki OS used in WakeUp mode, as a clear channel assessment (CCA) for checking radio status periodically. This paper presents a detailed analysis of radio WakeUp time factors of ContikiMAC. Furthermore, we propose a lightweight CCA (LW-CCA) as an extension to ContikiMAC to reduce the Radio Duty-Cycles in false WakeUps and idle listening though using dynamic received signal strength indicator (RSSI) status check time. The simulation results in the Cooja simulator show that LW-CCA reduces about 8% energy consumption in nodes while maintaining up to 99% of the packet delivery rate (PDR).

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