Research Article

REACH: An Efficient MAC Protocol for RF Energy Harvesting in Wireless Sensor Network

Table 1

System parameters.

Parameter Symbol Value

Slot time for energy (s)10μ
Slot time for data (s)20μ
Minimum contention window32
Maximum contention window1024
SIFS for energy (s)5μ
SIFS for data (s)10μ
DIFS for energy (s)25μ
DIFS for data (s)50μ
Minimum voltage (v)1.8
Maximum voltage (v)3.0
Threshold for harvesting (v)2.3
Channel speed (kbps)250