The paper presents a simple probabilistic analysis of the energy consumption in preamble sampling MAC protocols. We validate the analytical results with simulations. We compare the classical MAC protocols (B-MAC and X-MAC) with LAMAC, a method proposed in a companion paper. Our analysis highlights the energy savings achievable with LA-MAC with respect to B-MAC and X-MAC. It also shows that LA-MAC provides the best performance in the considered case of high density networks under traffic congestion.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1109.6531,
title = {Technical Report: Energy Evaluation of preamble Sampling MAC Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks},
author = {Giorgio Corbellini and Cedric Abgrall and Emilio Calvanese Strinati and Andrzej Duda},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.6531},
year = {2011}
}