Experimental Lifetime Evaluation for MAC Protocols on Real Sensor Hardware
Thomas Staub, Thomas Bernoulli, Markus Anwander, Markus R. Waelchli, Torsten Ingo Braun · BORIS (University Library Bern) · 2006
In this paper we present our experimental lifetime measure-ments for two implementations of MAC protocols designed for wireless sensor networks. We have implemented the TDMA based LMAC and the contention-based TEEM on the ESB nodes developed at FU Berlin. We show the energy requirements of these protocols on the respective hardware and also present figures for the trade off between robust-ness and energy consumption of these protocols. The main contribution of this paper consists in real world measure-ments giving an idea of energy conserving MAC protocols’ potential to extend node lifetime. 1.