Cross-Layer Energy Analysis and Proposal of a MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Dedicated to Building Monitoring Systems
- 1 XLIM Laboratory, SIC department, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
- 2 XLIM Laboratory, SIC department, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
- 3 XLIM Laboratory, SIC department, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
- 4 XLIM Laboratory, SIC department, University of Poitiers, Poitiers, France
- 5 Department of Health and Comfort, Centre Scientifique et Technique du Batiment, St Martin d’Hères, France
Abstract
In a sustainable development context, the monitoring systems are essential to study the building energy performances. With the recent technology advances, these systems can be based on wireless sensor networks, where the energy effi ciency is the main design challenge. To this end, most of the studies focus on low power Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols to reduce the overall energy consumption of a network. Nevertheless, the performance s assessment of these protocols is generally not performed in a realistic way, and does not take into account the performances of the other layers of the OSI model. In this paper, we propose a cross-layer methodology to assess the real performances of a MAC protocol by taking into account the traffic volume, the synchronization losses and more particularly the physical layer performances through a Bit Error Rate (BER) criterion. The simulation results demonstrate clearly the physical layer impact on a sensor lifetime. Finally, the proposal of an energy efficient MAC protocol for a wireless sensor net work dedicated to an application of building monitoring is proposed.
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