Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless Communications: Principles and Practice
Wireless sensor networks: a survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Z-MAC: a hybrid MAC for wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
Analytical modeling of medium access control protocols in wireless networks
Analytical modeling of medium access control protocols in wireless networks
An energy efficient and delay sensitive centralized MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks
Computer Standards & Interfaces
Wireless sensor network survey
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Energy conservation in wireless sensor networks: A survey
Ad Hoc Networks
An Energy Conservation MAC Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Personal Communications: An International Journal
Towards a classification of energy aware MAC protocols for wireless sensor networks
Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing
Throughput performance evaluation of two-tier TDMA for sensor networks
SARNOFF'09 Proceedings of the 32nd international conference on Sarnoff symposium
Crankshaft: an energy-efficient MAC-protocol for dense wireless sensor networks
EWSN'07 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Wireless sensor networks
ER-MAC: A Hybrid MAC Protocol for Emergency Response Wireless Sensor Networks
SENSORCOMM '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Fourth International Conference on Sensor Technologies and Applications
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In this work, the effects of time Slot Allocation Strategies (SASs) on node energy consumption for time slot assignment-based Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, generally preferred in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for energy efficiency, are comparatively studied. As Wireless Nodes' (WNs) energy consumption in WSNs determines the lifetime of network, it is of critical importance for application designers to know the best SAS to apply. Energy efficiency in WSNs can be maximized by employing an appropriate MAC while (i) assigning wireless medium resources efficiently and fairly among the WNs, (ii) minimizing packet collisions and (iii) avoiding overhearing. This paper aims at presenting and comparing the energy efficiency of transmit-based and receive-based SASs for multi-hop topologies used in WSN MAC. We have developed, modeled and analyzed both transmit-based and receive-based strategies. Based upon analytical models, comparative performance evaluations are presented. Besides, a detailed simulation study is carried out in a sample networking scenario by utilizing the OPNET Modeler software in order to confirm the analytical results. The study concludes that the receive-based SAS is at least five times more energy efficient than the transmit-based strategy in multi-hop network topologies, which is highly beneficial information to the WSN MAC designers.