%0 Journal Article
%T An Analytical Study of Variable Preamble Length-Based Broadcasting Scheme for WSNs
%A Arun Kumar
%A Kai-Juan Wong
%J Communications and Network
%P 517-523
%@ 1947-3826
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/cn.2013.53B2095
%X <p>
	In this paper, we present a detailed analytical study of
previously proposed variable preamble length-based broadcasting scheme for
wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Analytical results show that in dense wireless
sensor networks, broadcasting a packet with a small size preamble can
significantly improve the energy conservation on already limited battery
powered sensor nodes. For fairer comparison with variable preamble length-based
broadcasting scheme, a comprehensive analytical study for an existing
probability-based broadcasting scheme is also presented. Analytically
calculated results show that variable preamble length-based broadcasting scheme
is more energy-efficient than the probability-based broadcasting
scheme.
</p>
%K Broadcast
%K Flooding
%K Analytical Model
%K Wireless Sensor Network
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=37511