creator Duan, Sze Ching Eric advisor Li, Xiang-Yang In wireless sensor networks, wireless devices should wake up as necessary as possible to be able to communicate with neighbors and kept high quality performance. On the other hand, it is also important that wireless devices remain sleeping as much as possible to maintain low power consumption. Thus a power efficient duty cycle mac protocol is required in wireless sensor networks. This thesis proposed a mac layer duty cycle protocol which uses receiver initiated wake up mechanism to allow device to keep their transceivers off most of the time to maintain energy efficiency. Also this report measures the energy consumption of the protocol and made comparisons with other popular mechanisms which shows the approach have successfully reduced energy consumption in compare to other popular protocols. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-08-23T16:18:57Z No. of bitstreams: 2 Eric thesis.pdf: 380633 bytes, checksum: a2cbefecae34d665661eef0a232283bc (MD5) signed title page.pdf: 81459 bytes, checksum: fed1a460b24a78665500062cf6ca159c (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-23T16:18:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 Eric thesis.pdf: 380633 bytes, checksum: a2cbefecae34d665661eef0a232283bc (MD5) signed title page.pdf: 81459 bytes, checksum: fed1a460b24a78665500062cf6ca159c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 M.S. in Computer Science, May 2012 2012-04-30 2012-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2837 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access CS / Computer Science Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department