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MAC Protocols for WuR Enabled WSNs : Design and Performance Evaluation
Master's thesis Information- and communication technology IKT591 - University of Agder 2017Increasing energy efficiency is a challenging task for protocol design in wireless sensor networks
(WSNs) as well as in Internet of things (IoT). Traditionally, duty-cycled (DC) protocols
have been widely adopted for data transmissions in WSNs for energy conservation by reducing idle
listening and overhearing. Recently, wake-up radio (WuR) has merged as a promising technique to
replace DC protocols thanks to its superior performance in both network lifetime and transmission
latency. This thesis work focuses on the design and performance evaluation of WuR-enabled MAC
protocols considering various traffic conditions and network topologies.
As the first step, we investigate the niche of WuR by putting forward a question: Does WuR
always consume lower energy than DC protocols? Through in-depth analysis, we ascertain the
outstanding energy performance of WuR at light traffic loads. At the same time, we reveal its
disadvantages at heavy traffic loads.
Secondly, we propose a WuR protocol that is capable of avoiding WuC collisions by enabling
a contention-based collision avoidance mechanism for WuC transmissions. The performance of
the proposed protocol is evaluated by a Markov chain based mathematical model. Numerical results
indicate that our proposed protocol achieves higher packet delivery radio (PDR) and network
throughput, with the cost of slightly longer packet delay, compared with an existingWuR protocol.
Thirdly, we propose another WuR protocol, referred to as EHA-WuR, which is designed to
avoid energy hole in multi-hop networks for multipoint-to-point transmissions. Three operation
modes are designed for EHA-WuR. The proposed protocol is implemented in Omnet++ simulator.
Numerical results indicate that EHA-WuR significantly extends network lifetime compared with
the traditional hop-by-hop operation mode.
Key words: Wireless sensor networks, Internet of things, Wake-up radio, Collision avoidance,
Energy hole proble
Energy Efficiency inWireless Sensor Networks: Transmission Protocols and Performance Evaluation
Doktorgradsavhandling, Fakultet for teknologi og realfag, Universitetet i Agder, 2016Energy efficiency is one of the major goals for achieving green wireless communications.
The recent growth in ubiquitous wireless connections and multimedia
applications demands higher energy efficiency for wireless communications.
As a part of this picture, wireless sensor networks (WSNs) need to
be more energy efficient since the battery capacity of nodes in such networks
is limited in the absence of energy harvesting sources.
In general, an energy efficient protocol should perform as few as possible
operations when delivering user information successfully across the network.
Energy efficient data transmission schemes could utilize network resources
more effectively to lower down the energy consumption level. In this dissertation
research, we focus on improving energy efficiency for data transmission
and medium access control (MAC) protocols in WSNs. While energy consumption
is inevitable for transmitting and receiving data in a WSN, the other
typical and dominant energy consumption activities are idle listening, overhearing,
and retransmissions due to unsuccessful transmission attempts. An
energy efficient MAC protocol conserves energy by minimizing all these auxiliary
operations in order to prolong network lifetime. On the other hand, balanced
energy consumption among nodes which mitigates energy hole across
a WSN also helps to extend network lifetime.
In this context, we propose two cooperative transmission (CT) based energy
balancingMAC protocols for the purpose of WSN lifetime prolongation.
The first one is an asynchronous cooperative transmission MAC protocol, in
which nodes generate their own wakeup schedules based on their level number
in a WSN topology. The second one is a receiver initiated cooperative
transmission MAC protocol in which the CT is initiated by a relay node. It
is demonstrated that both proposed CT MAC protocols are able to achieve
significantly extended network lifetime.
In addition, an energy conserving sleeping mechanism for synchronous
duty cycling MAC protocols is also proposed in this thesis. It is an eventtriggered
sleeping (ETS) mechanism, which triggers the sleep mode of a node
based on the incoming traffic pattern to that node. The ETS mechanism eliminates
overhearing in a WSN and achieves higher energy efficiency.
Furthermore, we apply packet aggregation at the MAC layer in WSNs for achieving more energy efficient data transmission. In aggregated packet
transmission (APT), multiple packets are transmitted as a batch in a frame
within a single duty cycle instead of transmitting merely one packet per cycle.
Numerical results demonstrate that APT achieves higher throughput and
shorter delay, in addition to higher energy efficiency.
To evaluate the performance of the proposed MAC protocols and transmission
schemes, we develop discrete time Markov chain (DTMC) models
and verify them by comparing the results obtained from both analysis and
discrete-event based simulations. The analytical and simulation results match
precisely with each other, confirming the effectiveness of the proposed protocols
and schemes as well as the accuracy of the developed models