Performance evaluation of the MPW-MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks

Abstract EN

Recently Wireless sensor Networks (WSNs) take interesting researches due to their important and crucial applications.

WSNs have limited energy so all researches focused in designing routing algorithms to save energy and to make each one operating for longer possible time.

This paper was implemented the developed a modified predictive-wakeup MAC protocol (MPW-MAC) using NetLogo simulators.

Also was tested the behavior of the MPW-MAC in relation to the Data Packet delivery Ratio (PDR), average packet loss, average throughput, average delivery latency, and average duty cycle.

One important challenge in the WSNs is the energy consumption.

A new approach was designed to estimate the energy consumption.

The simulation results show improvements in Data Packet delivery Ratio (PDR), average packet loss, average throughput, average delivery latency, and average duty cycle.

Nodes distribution, selecting the nodes states, and wakeup times of nodes and the interval wakeup are randomly chosen.

Also the result indicates that the MPW-MAC protocol reduces the energy consumption and the number of the switching between states in the node will effects on the amount of the energy consumed by the node.