Low duty cycle and low collision asynchronous MAC protocol for wireless sensor network

Improving the quality of channel listening is an effective way to reduce energy consumption and improve communication efficiency. PB-MAC(predict-base MAC), a novel low duty cycle and low collision asynchronous MAC protocol was presented. PB-MAC lowers sensor duty cycle by enabling senders to predict receiver wakeup times. An efficient prediction-based reconnection and retransmission mechanism was introduced to achieve low collisions and high efficiency retransmission. Comparison of PB-MAC on OMNet++ with RI-MAC and X-MAC was evaluated. Evaluated on scenarios with 50 random disposed nodes, the average duty cycle, consumed energy and average collisions for PB-MAC is 68.60%, 24.75% and 68.05% less than those of RI-MAC and 64.39%, 64.05% and 70.54% less than those of X-MAC respectively. In grid network, PB-MAC also outperforms RI-MAC and X-MAC protocols.