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RP-MAC: A Passive MAC Protocol with Frame Reordering for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Idle listening is one of the main factors for energy consumption in wireless sensor networks, and the duty cycle mechanism is widely used to reduce idle listening. In this paper, we present a new receiver-initiated duty cycling MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks, called reordering-passive MAC (RP-MAC), which includes receiver wake-up time estimation scheme and frame reordering scheme. We evaluate the performance of RP-MAC in ns-2 network simulator, and the simulation results shows that RP-MAC achieves higher energy efficiency, higher network throughput and lower end-to-end delay compared to other passive protocols, especially in case of heavy traffic or low duty cycle.

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This work is supported by the Nonprofit Technology Application Research Projects of Zhejiang Province (2011C310290029), the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (LQ12F02009), the Scientific Research Fund of Zhejiang Provincial Education Department (Y201121034) and the open project of Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Network Technology (201104).

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  1. College of Physics and Electronic Information Engineering, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou, 325035, China

    Qian Hu & Zhenzhou Tang

  2. Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Information Network Technology, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Qian Hu

  3. Department of Computer, Wenzhou Vocational & Technical College, Wenzhou, 325005, China

    Qiming Tian

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Hu, Q., Tian, Q. & Tang, Z. RP-MAC: A Passive MAC Protocol with Frame Reordering for Wireless Sensor Networks. Int J Wireless Inf Networks 20, 74–80 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10776-012-0184-2

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