Abstract
In this paper we present a transmission scheduling protocol for data-gathering Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). We focus on the delivery performance in term of overall Packet Receive Ratio (PRR) at the sink node. In order to reduce the energy consumption and increase the overall delivery performance, elaborated scheduling algorithm is applied to the transmission and relaying of data packets, based on a beacon-broadcasting global synchronization. We tested the protocol using CiNet nodes, which is built on IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio modules CC2420 and Jennic JN5148, and obtained significant delivery improvement in multihop scenarios. This protocol is suitable for energy-hungry data gathering wireless sensor networks in which the sensor nodes use a short time window for radio activities in order to save energy.