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A Hybrid Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Backbone

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Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2019)

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This paper presents BWise, a semi-synchronous cross-layer protocol for wireless sensor networks. BWise targets to mitigate the latency caused by sleep-delay in duty-cycled WSNs. BWise combines an asynchronous MAC protocol with a geographic routing. A synchronous part of the network is used to route packets with reduced latency and low energy consumption. A small number of nodes (<5%) compose this fast route. No overhead occurs since time synchronization is piggybacked in ACK message. BWise protocol was tested in simulation against X-MAC and WiseMAC, two classic protocols of literature. Both of them were combined with a greedy geographic routing protocol. For the tested scenarios, our protocol outperforms the other two both in latency and energy.

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This study was financed in part by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - Brasil (CAPES) - Finance Code 001. Also, the present work was realized with support of Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG).

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    Piercarlo Fermino Soares, João Carlos Giacomin & Tales Heimfarth

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

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Soares, P.F., Giacomin, J.C., Heimfarth, T. (2020). A Hybrid Cross-Layer Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Based on Backbone. In: Barolli, L., Takizawa, M., Xhafa, F., Enokido, T. (eds) Advanced Information Networking and Applications. AINA 2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 926. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15032-7_38

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