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ArDeZ: A Low Power Asymmetric Rendezvous MAC for Sensor Networks Kwan-Wu Chin and Raad Raad Telecommunications Information Technology Research Institute University of Wollongong, Northfields Avenue, Australia 2522 {kwanwu, raad}@.au Abstract— We present a rendezvous based medium access control sensor network is formed. Further, the frequency and duration of these (MAC), called ArDeZ, for use in sensor networks. ArDeZ is a TDMA schedules can be changed dynamically by higher layer protocols to based medium access scheme that does not rely on strict time slot meet changing traffic requirements. positioning and assignments, making ArDeZ easily deployable in large sensor networks without having to adhere to strict time slot boundaries. We have implemented ArDeZ in the ns-2 simulator and have ArDeZ establishes two independent peer-to-peer time channels between experimented with various aspects of ArDeZ in different scenarios. nodes, and these channels do not necessarily have the same duty cycle. Our results show ArDeZ to be very promising in terms of its ability Each channel has a set of rendezvous periods associated with it that to adapt to changing traffic needs where higher layer protocols are generated from a seed exchanged during the setup process. Further, the duration and frequency of each channel’s rendezvous periods are configure communication frequencies and thus battery usage of nodes easily changed by an application for each link on a