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Enhanced Beacon-Enabled Mode for improved IEEE 802.15.4 low data rate performance

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This paper proposes enhancements to IEEE 802.15.4 Beacon-Enabled Mode that provide improved network performance and lower power consumption for low data rate applications. The proposed mode utilizes a Synchronous Low Power Listening technique that allows nodes to sleep for multiple Beacon Intervals and subsequently recover Beacon synchronization in a power efficient manner. The proposed mode also incorporates a Periodic Wakeup scheme that allows nodes to transmit at scheduled times during the inactive period. The proposed Enhanced Mode is backward compatible and inter-operable with the original standard. Simulation results show that the proposed Enhanced Mode reduces the power consumption overhead of synchronization by more than 50% for applications with low data rates compared with standard Beacon-Enabled mode. End-to-end delay and packet loss rate are reduced by more than 90% compared with standard Beacon-Enabled mode. The proposal can adapt to the change of traffic load, and prolong the lifetime of the PAN Coordinator by 1–5 times compared to standard Beacon Enabled mode.

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This work was supported by Enterprise Ireland as part of the “Bluedot+: Network-level Power Management for Wireless Sensor Networks” project (Project Code TD/07/IT/303).

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    Xiaoyun Li

  2. UCD Complex and Adaptive Systems Laboratory, UCD School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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Li, X., Bleakley, C.J. & Bober, W. Enhanced Beacon-Enabled Mode for improved IEEE 802.15.4 low data rate performance. Wireless Netw 18, 59–74 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-011-0387-y

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