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An Energy Efficient and Fair MAC Protocol Using Preamble Counting for Wireless Sensor Networks

무선 센서 네트워크의 MAC 프로토콜에서 에너지 효율성과 공정성 향상을 위한 기법 연구

  • 이동호 (광운대학교 전자통신공학과) ;
  • 정광수 (광운대학교 전자통신공학과)
  • Published : 2008.04.15
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Abstract

Since wireless sensor networks consist of nodes with the constrained battery, energy efficient MAC operation is one of the important issues. Low duty cycle operation is critical to conserve energy in wireless sensor network MAC protocol. Some paper proposed a new approach to low power listening, which employs a short preamble to further reduce energy consumption and to reduce latency. But short preamble suffers from unfair channel access problem since there was no consideration for contention between transmission nodes. Preamble counting proposes a solution to each of these problems by employing node selection information. Simulation results show that the preamble counting provides an improved energy efficiency and fairness of packet delivery.

제한된 배터리를 갖는 노드로 구성되는 무선 센서 네트워크에서는 에너지 효율적인 MAC 프로토콜의 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있으며 낮은 듀티 사이클 동작이 에너지 소모를 줄이는 효과적인 방법으로 널리 사용되고 있다. 낮은 듀티 사이클을 사용하는 MAC 프로토콜에서 불필요한 에너지 소모 및 지연을 줄이고 전송률을 향상시키기 위해 Short Preamble 기법이 제안되었지만 송신 노드간의 경쟁을 충분히 고려하지 않아 불공정한 경쟁의 문제가 발생할 수 있다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 Short Preamble에 우선순위 정보를 추가하여 수신 노드에서 적절히 송신 노드를 선택할 수 있는 Preamble Counting기법을 제안하였다. Preamble Counting을 사용함으로써 송신 노드간의 에너지 소모 및 패킷 전송률의 균형을 이룰 수 있음을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

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