Abstract

This paper proposes a new medium access control (MAC) protocol for low power sensor devices, suitable for IoT systems. IEEE 802.15.4 standard is suitable for low power wireless personal area network (WPAN) but it does not satisfy the data rate and reliability requirements for IoT systems in a 5G wireless network. We have observed that unnecessary packet drop takes place due to beacon superframe broadcasting during data transmission and it is the primary reason for the standard's data-rate and reliability shortfall. This problem represents a scenario where data transmission takes place with the lack of available time for data transmission in that superframe duration. To overcome this lacuna, we incorporate backoff freezing mechanism, where the backoff counter freezes whenever the available time for data transmission is insufficient in that superframe duration. A novel sleep protocol is designed to reduce power consumption in idle states too. The proposed MAC protocol is modeled using a 3- dimensional Markov chain for analytical performance evaluation. Analytical results are verified with the simulation run in ns-2.35. Proposed MAC with sleep protocol significantly outperforms the existing state-of-the-art protocols.

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