Energy Evaluation of PMCMTP for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

One of the major concerns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is improving the network lifetime. This paper addresses the problem of energy saving in an IEEE 802.15.4a large-scale full mesh WSNs based on UWB technology. It presents a network architecture to facilitate resource sharing and to ensure load and energy balancing. With a particular focus on medium access control (MAC) protocols, we propose a multi-channel MAC protocol, Prioritized Multi-Channel Multi-Time slot MAC protocol (PMCMTP), that due to its intelligent management of spectrum resource and time slots, can simultaneously improve energy efficiency and network quality-of-service (QoS). To prove energy efficiency and QoS support of PMCMTP, we implement it in a discrete-time simulator built in JAVA. Simulations results show that PMCMTP succeeds to save energy and to enhance network QoS with a low overhead.

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