Analysis of the time slot length impact of selected data link layer protocols on energy resource consumption in wireless sensor networks
Paweł Dymora, Mirosław Mazurek, Kamil Łyczko, Zdeněk Hadaš · Advances in Science and Technology – Research Journal · 2024
The paper analyzes the effect of time slots on the correctness of packet delivery for selected media access control (MAC) protocols of wireless sensor networks (WSN) like B-MAC (Berkeley MAC), L-MAC (lightweight medium access protocol), and X-MAC protocol (enhanced MAC protocol compared to B-MAC).In the study, reliability, and power consumption were used as indicators of the quality of the protocol variant.The length of the time slot was shown to affect the consumption of energy resources of the nodes.For all network sizes considered, it was shown that the best results were achieved by the L-MAC protocol, which also proved to be the most energyefficient with a low ratio of energy resource consumption.The X-MAC protocol has significant advantages and can be easily implemented on nodes running packet-switched wireless transceivers.