Research Article

Taxonomy and Evaluations of Low-Power Listening Protocols for Machine-to-Machine Networks

Table 2

Notations.

NotationDescriptionValue

Preamble sensing time15.6 milliseconds
Wake-up sensing time183 milliseconds
Frame sensing time183 milliseconds
Beacon sending time90 milliseconds
Sleep duration Variable milliseconds
Preamble transmission time for device trigger(i) Long preamble (B-MAC)
(ii) Short preamble (X-MAC)
(iii) Variable (Wise-MAC)
Wake-up packet time for trigger90 milliseconds
Data packet time for trigger150 milliseconds
Beacon listen timeRandom
Back-off period1 milliseconds
Listen periodVariable
Data transmission time200 milliseconds
ACK transmission time90 milliseconds
Data pending timeRandom
Duty-cycle time  (preamble-based) 
 (wake-up packet-based)
 (packet-based) 
= beacon interval (receiver-initiated)
Total active duration  (i)
Total sleep duration  (ii)
Request interval1 hour (=3600 seconds = 3600000 milliseconds)
Current consumption in active state0.0061944 mA
Current consumption in active state0.0000083 mA
Active duration during data aggregation time
Active duration in a duty cycle
Acknowledgement waiting period100 milliseconds
Supply voltage3.5 V