RIX-MAC: An energy-efficient Receiver-Initiated wakeup MAC protocol for WSNs

Inhye Park, Hyungkeun Lee, Seokjoong Kang

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Abstract

This paper proposes RIX-MAC (Receiver-Initiated X-MAC), a new energy-efficient MAC protocol based on an asynchronous duty cycling. RIX-MAC improves energy efficiency through utilizing short preambles and adopting the receiver-initiated approach, where RIX-MAC minimizes sender nodes' energy consumption by enabling transmitters to predict receiver nodes' wake-up times. It also reduces receiver nodes' energy consumption by decreasing the number of control frames. We use the network simulator to evaluate RIX-MAC's performance. Compared to the prior asynchronous duty cycling approaches of X-MAC and PW-MAC, the proposed protocol shows a remarkable improvement in energy-efficiency and end-to-end delay.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1604-1617
Number of pages14
JournalKSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
Volume8
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Keywords

  • Asynchronous duty cycling
  • Energy-efficiency MAC
  • Medium access control
  • Wireless sensor network

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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