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A Low Duty Cycle MAC Protocol for Directional Wireless Sensor Networks

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Directional communication in wireless sensor networks minimizes interference and thereby increases reliability and throughput of the network. Hence, directional wireless sensor networks (DWSNs) are fastly attracting the interests of researchers and industry experts around the globe. However, in DWSNs the conventional medium access control protocols face some new challenges including the synchronization among the nodes, directional hidden terminal and deafness problems, etc. For taking the advantages of spatial reusability and increased coverage from directional communications, a low duty cycle directional Medium Access control protocol for mobility based DWSNs, termed as DCD-MAC, is developed in this paper. To reduce energy consumption due to idle listening, duty cycling is extensively used in WSNs. In DCD-MAC, each pair of parent and child sensor nodes performs synchronization with each other before data communication. The nodes in the network schedule their time of data transmissions in such a way that the number of collisions occurred during transmissions from multiple nodes is minimized. The sensor nodes are kept active only when the nodes need to communicate with each other. The DCD-MAC exploits localized information of mobile nodes in a distributed manner and thus it gives weighted fair access of transmission slots to the nodes. As a final point, we have studied the performance of our proposed protocol through extensive simulations in NS-3 and the results show that the DCD-MAC gives better reliability, throughput, end-to-end delay, network lifetime and overhead comparing to the related directional MAC protocols.

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The authors would like to extend their sincere appreciation to the Deanship of Scientific Research at King Saud University for its funding of this research through the Research Group Project no. RGP-281. Special thanks to the ICT Division of the Government of Bangladesh for student fellowship.

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  1. Green Networking Research (GNR) Group, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    Fernaz Narin Nur, Selina Sharmin & Md. Abdur Razzaque

  2. Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Dhaka, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh

    Md. Shariful Islam

  3. College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11543, Saudi Arabia

    Mohammad Mehedi Hassan

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Nur, F.N., Sharmin, S., Razzaque, M.A. et al. A Low Duty Cycle MAC Protocol for Directional Wireless Sensor Networks. Wireless Pers Commun 96, 5035–5059 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-016-3728-4

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