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An energy efficient medium access control protocol for target tracking based on dynamic convey tree collaboration in wireless sensor networks
Author(s) -
Wang Yun,
Shi Peizhong,
Li Kai,
Chen Zhikui
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of communication systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1099-1131
pISSN - 1074-5351
DOI - 10.1002/dac.2355
Subject(s) - time division multiple access , computer science , computer network , tree (set theory) , access control , efficient energy use , node (physics) , energy consumption , wireless sensor network , throughput , protocol (science) , wireless , distributed computing , real time computing , telecommunications , medicine , mathematical analysis , ecology , alternative medicine , mathematics , structural engineering , pathology , electrical engineering , biology , engineering
SUMMARY Collisions and interferences among nodes pose a challenge for data aggregation in many applications, such as target tracking by adopting dynamic convey tree‐based collaboration (DCTC). Because coordination with a time division multiple access (TDMA) medium access control (MAC) might provide an opportunity for better interference control, in this paper, we refine slot allocation to nodes in a dynamic convey tree and design an energy efficient MAC protocol called dynamic‐time division multiple access (D‐TDMA). The D‐TDMA protocol avoids collisions and interferences and allocates contiguous active slots to nodes as far as possible during data aggregation from leaf nodes to a root node. As a result, energy consumption in switching from sleep to active state is saved. In comparison with Always‐On scheme, theoretical analysis results show that the proposed protocol D‐TDMA improves energy efficiency by up to 28.3% during one data aggregation. Furthermore, simulation results show that D‐TDMA does not suffer from collisions and interferences among nodes in a dynamic convey tree and performs similar throughput to that of Always‐On scheme. Because of its advantage of parallel and continuous scheduling among node pairs in the convey tree, D‐TDMA outperforms efficient slot reservation in both energy efficiency and low delay because of to slot saving. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.