Research Article

Energy Analysis of Contention Tree-Based Access Protocols in Dense Machine-to-Machine Area Networks

Figure 5

Example of DQ with 6 devices (d1 to d6) and 3 contention slots: (a) tree-splitting algorithm and (b) time diagram with the contents of CRQ and DTQ.
(a) Tree-splitting algorithm
(b) Contents of CRQ and DTQ in each frame of the process