TITLE:
An Analytical Study of Variable Preamble Length-Based Broadcasting Scheme for WSNs
AUTHORS:
Arun Kumar, Kai-Juan Wong
KEYWORDS:
Broadcast; Flooding; Analytical Model; Wireless Sensor Network
JOURNAL NAME:
Communications and Network,
Vol.5 No.3C,
October
7,
2013
ABSTRACT:
In this paper, we present a detailed analytical study of
previously proposed variable preamble length-based broadcasting scheme for
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Analytical results show that in dense wireless
sensor networks, broadcasting a packet with a small size preamble can
significantly improve the energy conservation on already limited battery
powered sensor nodes. For fairer comparison with variable preamble length-based
broadcasting scheme, a comprehensive analytical study for an existing
probability-based broadcasting scheme is also presented. Analytically
calculated results show that variable preamble length-based broadcasting scheme
is more energy-efficient than the probability-based broadcasting
scheme.