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Evaluating passive neighborhood discovery for Low Power Listening MAC protocols
Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2014-10
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Start Page
173
End Page
180
Article Number
6962167
Citation
10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2014: 6962167, 173-180
Publisher DOI
Scopus ID
ISBN
978-1-4799-5042-3
978-1-4799-5041-6
Low Power Listening (LPL) MAC protocols are widely used in today's sensors networks for duty cycling. Their simplicity and power efficiency ensures a long network life when nodes are battery driven and their easy deployment and lower cost of maintenance makes them suitable to be used in hard-to-access places and harsh conditions. We argue that to fully utilize energy efficiency provided by LPL, other protocols in the protocol stack should be aware of mechanisms. In this paper, we focus on neighborhood discovery protocols and discuss their energy efficient integration with LPL. Then, we study the possibility of using a completely passive approach for neighborhood discovery in such networks and provide an analytical model for its performance characteristics. We verify our performance model both by simulation and implementation in TinyOS. Our evaluation results confirm the efficiency of our proposed method in duty-cycled sensor networks.
Subjects
design | energy efficient protocol | low power listening MAC protocols | neighborhood discovery | wireless sensor networks
DDC Class
600: Technology