Proposed Energy Efficient Multi-Layer MAC Protocoll for Massive MTC over LTE Wireless Network

Naguib, Ahmed; Saad, Waleed; Shokair, Mona

doi:10.21608/mjeer.2019.62727

Proposed Energy Efficient Multi-Layer MAC Protocoll for Massive MTC over LTE Wireless Network

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Department of Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Faculty of Electronic Engineering, Menoufia University, Menouf 32952, Egypt

10.21608/mjeer.2019.62727

Abstract

Energy efficiency is one of the prime consideration in designing
Machine Type Communication (MTC) networks, because of the
battery-powered machine nodes. Therefore, extending the network
lifetime can be done by using more energy efficient techniques. The
dramatically increase in the number of machine nodes in many
aspects of our life makes the wireless standards to adopt Machine
to Machine (M2M) communication in its new specifications. The
massive number of machines need a new MAC protocol that makes
full use of the node’s battery, so that node can live longer time. In
this paper, a new protocol called Multi-Layer MAC (ML-MAC) will
be suggested, and then integrating this protocol into LTE network
will be made. Calculations of energy efficiency, delay, and
throughput as a performance parameter will be done. Simulation
results show that proposed ML-MAC protocol is more energy
efficient compared to traditional IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol and
Sensor MAC (S-MAC) protocol. Moreover, prolonging the network
lifetime can be done by using the new ML-MAC protocol than
others.

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