Reactive GTS Allocation Protocol for Sporadic Events Using the IEEE 802.15.4

Table 4

Properties of the IEEE 802.15.4 standard based proposals.

	Control protocol	Scheduling	Routing	Periodic	Sporadic	Multicluster	Any destination	Standard compliance	Energy efficiency
An Implicit GTS allocation mechanism [20]	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓
Offline scheduling using TDCS [5]	✗	✓	✗	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
Improved CSMA/CA using priority toning [21]	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
(m, k)-firm pattern spinning [16]	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✗
BACCARAT [14]	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗
Time and frequency diversity for reliability [15]	✗	✗	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓
Novel GTS mechanism [17]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓	✗
Dynamic inflation implicit deflation [6]	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓
CPAGA, the work presented in this paper	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓