International Journal of Computer Applications |
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
Volume 12 - Number 1 |
Year of Publication: 2010 |
Authors: Ramchand V, D.K.Lobiyal |
10.5120/1643-2210 |
Ramchand V, D.K.Lobiyal . Article:An Analytical Model for Power Control T-MAC Protocol. International Journal of Computer Applications. 12, 1 ( December 2010), 13-18. DOI=10.5120/1643-2210
This paper presents a Power Control T- MAC protocol that combines the features from S-MAC and T-MAC protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). This protocol has been proposed to reduce the energy consumption of a node. In WSN a node consumes energy in transmitting and receiving of data, listening transmissions of other nodes, and in sleep mode. Therefore, energy consumption of a node has been estimated by adding up the energy consumed in each of the above activity. This has been achieved by estimating the time spent in each activity by a node. The proposed protocol has been simulated using NS-2. The simulation results of Power Control T-MAC shows better energy savings as compared to T-MAC and S-MAC protocol.