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Optimization and Verification of the TR-MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

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Energy-efficiency is an important requirement in the design of communication protocols for wireless sensor networks (WSN). TR-MAC is an energy-efficient medium access control (MAC) layer protocol for low power WSN that exploits transmitted-reference (TR) modulation in the physical layer. The underlying TR modulation in TR-MAC provides faster synchronization and signal acquisition without requiring channel estimation and complex rake receiver in the receiver side. TR modulation also enables multiple access for a pair of nodes using different frequency offsets. This paper introduces an explicit expression that allows the TR-MAC protocol to minimize its energy consumption, depending on the experienced traffic load. Furthermore, an implementation of the protocol in the OMNeT++ simulator with MiXiM simulation framework is introduced, and analytical results introduced in [13] are verified by simulation results obtained using the simulator.

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This research is supported by the Dutch Technology Foundation STW, which is part of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and partly funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in the context of STW project 11317 - Walnut: Hard to Crack - Wireless Ad-hoc Links using robust Noise-based Ultra-wideband Transmission.

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Morshed, S., Heijenk, G. (2015). Optimization and Verification of the TR-MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Aguayo-Torres, M., Gómez, G., Poncela, J. (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications. WWIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9071. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22572-2_29

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