A directional MAC protocol with deafness avoidance for UWB wireless sensor networks

Authors:
Eirini Karapistoli;Ioannis Gragopoulos;Ioannis Tsetsinas;Fotini-Niovi Pavlidou
Affiliations:
Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece;CERTH, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece;Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Engineering, Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki, Greece;CERTH, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Venue:
ICC'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Communications
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Ultra-Wideband (UWB) is a key solution for wireless connectivity, characterized by ultralow power consumption and a good degree of robustness to interference. Evidence of its importance, is its recent use in the IEEE 802.15.4a standard. UWB technology with joint consideration of directional antennas can benefit when compared to classical omnidirectional antennas from the energy conservation viewpoint, which is of fundamental concern when it comes to wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, exploiting directionality requires new approach in the design of a medium access control (MAC) protocol to be applied. In this work, idle nodes continuously rotate their receiving beams over 360 degrees until a predefined preamble trailer is detected. The resulting scheme is a directional ultra-wideband MAC protocol, named DU-MAC, which deals effectively with the problem of deafness and the problem of determination of neighbors' location. Simulation based studies would demonstrate the effectiveness of our protocol in many critical parameters.