TY - GEN
T1 - The energy cost of control packets in hybrid MAC protocols (CCF C)
AU - Dong, Qian
AU - Dargie, Waltenegus
AU - Schill, Alexander
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper investigates the energy cost of control packets in contention-based medium access control protocols in wireless sensor networks. Control packets are useful to avoid collision and overhearing, but cost a significant amount of energy. Therefore, whether or not to apply control packets is a trade-off. It will be shown that this trade-off mainly depends on the packet arrival rate at individual nodes, the transmission rate, the duty cycle and the average number of active neighbors in the network.
AB - This paper investigates the energy cost of control packets in contention-based medium access control protocols in wireless sensor networks. Control packets are useful to avoid collision and overhearing, but cost a significant amount of energy. Therefore, whether or not to apply control packets is a trade-off. It will be shown that this trade-off mainly depends on the packet arrival rate at individual nodes, the transmission rate, the duty cycle and the average number of active neighbors in the network.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78149316562&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/HPCC.2010.118
DO - 10.1109/HPCC.2010.118
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:78149316562
SN - 9780769542140
T3 - Proceedings - 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2010
SP - 609
EP - 615
BT - Proceedings - 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2010
T2 - 2010 12th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications, HPCC 2010
Y2 - 1 September 2010 through 3 September 2010
ER -