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    Game Theoretical Approach for Energy-Delay Balancing in Distributed Duty-Cycled MAC Protocols of Wireless Networks
    (CERIST, 2014-04-24) Doudou, Messaoud; M. Barcelo-Ordinas, Jose; Djenouri, Djamel; Garcia-Vidal, Jorge; Badache, Nadjib
    Optimizing energy consumption and end-to-end (e2e) packet delay in energy constrained distributed wireless networks is a conflicting multi-objective optimization problem. This paper investigates this trade-off from a game-theoretic perspective, where the two optimization objectives are considered as virtual game players that attempt to optimize their utility values. The cost model of each player is mapped through a generalized optimization framework onto protocol specific MAC parameters. From the optimization framework, a cooperative game is defined in which the Nash Bargaining solution assures the balance between energy consumption and e2e packet delay. For illustration, this formulation is applied to three state-of-the-art wireless sensor network MAC protocols; X-MAC, DMAC, and LMAC as representatives of preamble sampling, slotted contention-based, and frame-based MAC categories, respectively. The paper shows the effectiveness of such framework in optimizing protocol parameters that achieve a fair energy-delay performance trade-off under the application requirements in terms of initial energy budget and maximum e2e packet delay. The proposed framework is scalable with the increase in the number of nodes, as the players represent the optimization metrics instead of nodes.
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    Slotted Contention-Based Energy-Efficient MAC Protocols in Delay-Sensitive
    (CERIST, 2012) Doudou, Messaoud; Badache, Nadjib; Djenouri, Djamel
    This paper considers slotted duty-cycled medium access control (MAC) protocols, where sensor nodes periodically and synchronously alternate their operations between active and sleep modes to save energy. In order to transmit data from one node to another, both nodes must be in active mode. The synchronous feature makes these protocols more appropriate for delay-sensitive applications compared to asynchronous protocols. With asynchronous protocols, additional delay is needed for the sender to meet the receiver's active period. This is eliminated with synchronous approaches where nodes sleep and wake up all together. Moreover, contention-based feature makes the protocols --considered in this paper-- conceptually distributed and more dynamic compared to TDMA-based protocols. Duty cycling allows obtaining significant energy saving vs. full duty cycle (sleepless) random access MAC protocols. However, it may result in significant latency. Forwarding a packet over multiple hops often requires multiple operational cycles (sleep latency), where nodes have to wait for the next cycle to forward data at each hop. Timeliness issues of slotted contention-based WSN MAC protocols is deal t with in this paper, where a comprehensive review and taxonomy of state-of-the-art synchronous MAC protocols is provided. The main contribution is to study and classify the protocols from the delay-efficiency perspective.
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    Synchronous Contention-Based MAC Protocols for Delay-Sensitive Wireless Sensor Networks: a Review and Taxonomy
    (CERIST, 2012) Doudou, Messaoud
    In slotted duty-cycled medium access control (MAC) protocols, sensor nodes periodically and synchronously alternate their operations between active and sleep modes. The sleep mode allows a sensor node to completely turn off its radio and save energy. In order to transmit data from one node to another, both nodes must be in active mode. The synchronous feature makes the protocols more appropriate for delay-sensitive applications compared to asynchronous protocols. The latter involve additional delay for the sender to meet the receiver’s active period, which is eliminated with synchronous approach where nodes sleep and wake up all together. On the other hand, contention-based feature makes the protocol conceptually distributed and more dynamic compared to TDMA-based. Duty cycling allows obtaining significant energy saving compared to full duty cycle (sleepless) random access MAC protocols. However, it may result in significant latency. Forwarding a packet over multiple hops often requires multiple operational cycles (sleep latency) where nodes have to wait for the next cycle to forward data at each hop. This manuscript deals with timeliness issues of slotted contention-based WSN MAC protocols. It provides a comprehensive review and taxonomy of state-of-the-art synchronous MAC protocols. The main contribution is to study and classify these protocols from the delay efficiency perspective. The protocols are divided into two main categories: static schedule and adaptive schedule. Adaptive schedule are split up into four subclasses: adaptive grouped schedule, adaptive repeated schedule, staggered schedule, and reservation schedule. Several state-of-the-art protocols are described following the proposed classification, with comprehensive discussions and comparisons with respect to their latency.