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An efficient MAC protocol with adaptive energy harvesting for machine-to-machine networks

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posted on 2015-01-01, 00:00 authored by Y Liu, Zuyuan Yang, R Yu, Yong XiangYong Xiang, S Xie
In a machine-to-machine network, the throughput performance plays a very important role. Recently, an attractive energy harvesting technology has shown great potential to the improvement of the network throughput, as it can provide consistent energy for wireless devices to transmit data. Motivated by that, an efficient energy harvesting-based medium access control (MAC) protocol is designed in this paper. In this protocol, different devices first harvest energy adaptively and then contend the transmission opportunities with energy level related priorities. Then, a new model is proposed to obtain the optimal throughput of the network, together with the corresponding hybrid differential evolution algorithm, where the involved variables are energy-harvesting time, contending time, and contending probability. Analytical and simulation results show that the network based on the proposed MAC protocol has greater throughput than that of the traditional methods. In addition, as expected, our scheme has less transmission delay, further enhancing its superiority.

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Journal

IEEE access

Volume

3

Pagination

358 - 367

Publisher

IEEE

Location

Piscataway, N.J.

eISSN

2169-3536

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2015, IEEE